... 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
| Edmund Burke - 1826 - Liczba stron: 902
...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...himself — his movements were rapid but irregular. " Letmeassureyou that Richard, when a boy, was by no means vicious. The sources of his infirmities... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1826 - Liczba stron: 570
...like Gallio, seemed to care naught for these things. sure that he read the Iliad now and then ; not as a professed scholar would do, critically, but with...himself, — his movements were rapid but irregular. " Let me assure you that Richard, when a boy, was by no means vicious. The sources of his infirmities... | |
| 1832 - Liczba stron: 592
...orations of Demosthenes. He had, also, according to Parr, " read Homer's Iliad, now and then ; not as a professed scholar would do, critically, but with...all the strong sympathies of a poet reading a poet." The scanty fortunes of his father prevented his removal to college ; but, with his brother, he received... | |
| 1837 - Liczba stron: 830
...cannot speak positively about Homer; — hut 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 pool reading a poet. Richard did not and could not forget what he onre knew, hut his path to knowledge... | |
| 1839 - Liczba stron: 694
...read the Iliad now and then ; not as a professed scholar would do, critically, but with all the^trong sympathies of a poet reading a poet. Richard did not...rapid but irregular." He continued at Harrow until his eighteenth year, when he was removed to London, where his father then resided. Here he continued,... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1842 - Liczba stron: 588
...of the principal Latin authors, and, according to Dr. Parr, " read Homer's Iliad now and then ; not as a professed scholar would do, critically, but with...all the strong sympathies of a poet reading a poet." The scanty fortunes of his father denied him the advantage of finishing his studies at the university... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - Liczba stron: 512
...but I am very sure that he read the Iliad now and then ; RIГHARD iUUtfSHiY SIIKIITDAГí f.SQ. not as a professed scholar would do, .critically, but...all the strong sympathies of a poet reading a poet." After leaving Harrow, Sheridan formed an intimate friendship with Mr. Halhed, and, in conjunction with... | |
| William Earle - 1859 - Liczba stron: 706
...I 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...his own. His steps were noiseless — his progress w as scarcely felt by himself — his movements were rapid, but irregular. " Let me assure you that... | |
| William Earle - 1859 - Liczba stron: 348
...I 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. Eichard did not, and could not, forget what he once knew, but his path to knowledge was his own. His... | |
| Percy Fitzgerald - 1886 - Liczba stron: 464
...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...himself — his movements were rapid but irregular. ' Let me assure you that Richard, when a boy, was by no means vicious. The sources of his infirmities... | |
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