 ... spoke copiously and powerfully about Cicero. He had read, and he had understood, the four orations of Demosthenes, read and taught in our public schools. He was at home in Virgil and in Horace. I cannot speak positively about Homer, — but I am very...  The Dublin University Magazine - Strona 4731837Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1886 - Liczba stron: 468
...5—2 speak positively about Homer, but I am very sure that he read the " Iliad" now and then ; not as a professed scholar would do, critically ; but...what he once knew; but his path to knowledge was his own—his steps were noiseless—his progress was scarcely felt by himself—his movements were rapid... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1896 - Liczba stron: 478
...cannot speak positively about Homer.—but I am very sure that he read the Iliad now and then, not as a professed scholar would do, critically, but with...all the strong sympathies of a poet reading a poet. . . . " Let me assure you that Richard, when a boy, was by no means vicious. The sources of his infirmities... | |
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