 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...advantage of a very sensible, though the same time a very severe, master, the Rev. James Bowyer, who ear moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer u ') li n, ritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid, Ac." He made onliuary advances in scholarship,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...the kindness of a friend, a presentation to Christ Church Hospital, London. ' I enjoyed,' he says, ' ugh the path of duty ; the Eev. James Bowyer, who early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 902 pages
...sensible, tbongh at the same time a very severe master. He early molded my taste to the prefer-* ence of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus...Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracta as I then read,) Terence, and above all the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with tlio... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 972 pages
...advantage of а тегу sensible, though at the same time а тегу sever* master. He early molded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero,...Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Oviil. Ho habituated me to compare Lncretius, (in such extracM as I then read,) Terence, and above... | |
 | English periodicals - 1889 - 532 pages
...he must have suffered both in body and mind all through his school career, he distinctly states : ' At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a...sensible, though at the same time a very severe, master, the Rev. James Bowyer.' ' We must not pass on from his schooldays without noticing two names which... | |
 | Edmund Dring - 1877 - 92 pages
...Coleridge, the poet, who has paid a warm tribute to hia merits. " He early moulded my taste," says he, " to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer...Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius,. Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not onlywith the Eoman poets of the so called... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - Classical philology - 1907 - 570 pages
...principle which space has forbidden us to mention. "At school (Christ's Hospital)", says Coleridge," I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master, the Reverend James Bowyer. He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 316 pages
...cordial gratefulness, thus speaks of Bowyer in the Biographia Literaria : " At school (Christ's Hospital) I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time a very severe, master, the Reverend James Bowyer. He early molded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 826 pages
...impress on my later compositions. At school (Christ's Hospital), I enjoyed the inestimable advanJage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master, the Reverend James Bowyer.'" He early moulded my 'oste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1884 - 482 pages
...simplicity, which I have studied, perhaps with inferior success, to impress on my later compositions. At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a...taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homeland Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius (in... | |
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Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, (in such extracts as I then read,) Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman... 
