 | 1821 - 724 páginas
...reputed to have brought upon myself all the sufferings which 1 shall have to record, great, that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres, but...converse in Greek fluently, and without embarrassment — an accomby a long course of indulgence in plishment which I have not since this practice purely... | |
 | 1822 - 962 páginas
...thirteen, I wrote Greek with ease ; and at fifteen, my command of that language was so great, that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres, but...converse in Greek fluently, and without embarrassment — an accomplishment which I have not since met wfth in any scholar of my times, and which, in my... | |
 | James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - 1836 - 566 páginas
...was of an original turn of mind even when a youth, and one of his earliest exploits was the running away from the public school in which he had been placed...only composed Greek verses in lyric metres, but could conversein Greek fluently and without embarrassment," so perfectly, that one of his own masters, who... | |
 | 1837 - 654 páginas
...was of an original turn of mind even when a youth, and one of his earliest exploits was the running away from the public school in which he had been placed...himself a scholar, has said of him ' that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than I could address an English one.' After having repeatedly written... | |
 | Benjamin Love - 1839 - 296 páginas
...Princes' Tavern, in Crossstreet, corner of Princess-street, in Manchester. At the age of 1 5, De Quincey "not only composed Greek verses, in lyric metres,...himself a scholar, has said of him, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than I could an English one." MUs MARSHALL, authoress of several popular... | |
 | Benjamin Love - 1842 - 328 páginas
...Tavern, in Cross-street, corner of Princess-street, in Manchester. At the age of fifteen, De Quincey not only composed Greek verses, in lyric metres, but...himself a scholar, has said of him, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than I could an English one." MRS. MARSH ALL, authoress of several... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 páginas
...thirteen I wrote Greek with ease ; and at fifteen my command of that language was so great, that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres, but...converse in Greek fluently, and without embarrassment — an accomplishment which I have not since met with in any scholar of my times, and which, in my... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 140 páginas
...thirteen I wrote Greek with ease ; and at fifteen my command of that language was so great, that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres, but...converse in Greek fluently, and without embarrassment — an accomplishment which I have not since met with in any scholar of my times, and which, in my... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1877 - 418 páginas
...wrote Greek with ease," he says, " and at fifteen my command of that language was so great, that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres, but...converse in Greek fluently, and without embarrassment — an accomplishment which I have not since met with in any scholar of my times, and which, in my... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 236 páginas
...thirteen, I wrote Greek with ease ; and at fifteen my command of that language was so great, that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres, but...converse in Greek fluently, and without embarrassment — an accomplishment which I have not since met with in any scholar of my times, and which, in my... | |
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At thirteen, I wrote Greek with ease; and at fifteen my command of that language was so great that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres, but could converse in Greek fluently, and without embarrassment... 
