 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. He * early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes...Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Terence,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1834 - 368 pages
...enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. He * early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes...Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again Yirgil to Ovid. He habituated mo to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Tercnoo,... | |
 | 1834 - 784 pages
...severe master but a good, and one to whom his pupil owed much. By him the taste of Coleridge was moulded to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer...Theocritus to Virgil, and again, of Virgil to Ovid. High is the tribute of recollection paid by Coleridge to a man whose severities, ever after,"not seldom... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...sensible, ttaogfc, at tta same time, Bowyer, who early moulded lay taste to tta piefcituce of Demosttana le Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid, tc." From Christ's Hospital ta wa* tent to Jesus College, Cambridge, where ta obtained tta Sir Wiffiam... | |
 | Great Britain - 1835 - 544 pages
...advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time a very severe, master (the Rev. James Bowyer). He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theoeritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lueretius, Terence,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1836 - 496 pages
...enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. He * early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes...Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again, Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Terence,... | |
 | Baptists - 1850 - 664 pages
...He gives great credit to Bowyer, the Head Master of the Grammar department, who early moulded his " taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and of Virgil to Ovid." From him he learned also (what he never forgot) " that in the truly great poet... | |
 | James Gillman - Poets, English - 1838 - 386 pages
...his mental improvement, he has, in his Biog. Lit. vol. ip 7, expressed himself in these words :—" He early moulded my taste to the " preference of Demosthenes...again of Virgil " to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucre" tius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Terence, " and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...advantage of a very sensible, though, at the same time, a very severe master, the Uev. James Bowyer, who n, Almighty Cause Of all my hope and fear ! In whose dread presence, ere an hour, &c." From Christ's Hospital ho was sent to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he obtained the Sir William... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. He * early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes...Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again, Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Terence,... | |
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He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius (in such extracts as I then read), Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of... 
