 | Laura Johnson Wylie - Criticism - 1894 - 242 pages
...those of the eighteenth century. James Bowyer, his stern master at Christ's Hospital, early moulded his taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and taught him to see the superiority, in naturalness and truth, of Virgil and Ovid, and of Lucretius and... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1895 - 654 pages
...of the better side of Christ's Hospital discipline, which may judiciously be compared with Lamb's. " At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a...Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Yirgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius (in such extracts as I then read), Terence, and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 272 pages
...simplicity, which I have studied, perhaps with inferior success, to impress on my later compositions. 1 5 At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a...sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. 2 He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 272 pages
...simplicity, which I have studied, perhaps with inferior success, to impress on my later compositions.1 5 At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a...very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master.2 He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - Education - 1896 - 364 pages
...shining to the quiet moon. February 1798. FROM "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 moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of... | |
 | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch - Education - 1897 - 304 pages
...of his most illustrious pupils speaks with affectionate gratitude. " I enjoyed," says Coleridge, " the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though...the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer to Theocritus and Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius (in such... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 166 pages
...the youthful poet. In his Biographia Literaria (Chap. I.) Coleridge pays a deserved tribute to his master: "He early moulded my taste to the preference...Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. . . . At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets, he made us read Shakespeare and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1899 - 108 pages
...Hospital, the headmaster of which was the Eev. James Boyer. Of Boyer Coleridge thus writes : — " At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a...sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master, the Keverend James Boyer. He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of... | |
 | Ernest Harold Pearce (Bp. of Worcester) - Haywards Heath (England) - 1901 - 506 pages
...building, and the lack is the more to be regretted ; for here, not in John Smith's building, Coleridge " enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time a very severe master, the Reverend James Bowyer " ; here Charles Lamb learned nothing because his master, Matthew Feilde,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1902 - 162 pages
...the youthful poet. In his Biographia Literaria (Chap. I.) Coleridge pays a deserved tribute to his master : " He early moulded my taste to the preference...Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. . . . At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets, he made us read Shakespeare and... | |
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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... 
