| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 pages
...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 (in such extracts as I then read), Terence, and above all the chaster poems of Catullus,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...and The Foster Mother's Tale.— Ed.] BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA. 147 master, the Reverend James Bowyer.* He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes...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... | |
| 1855 - 396 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...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... | |
| 1855 - 578 pages
...the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. He earlj moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pages
...master, the Rev. James Bowyer, who early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cieoro, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid, Ac." He made extraordinary advances in scholarship, and amassed a vast variety of miscellaneous knowledge,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 770 pages
...Mariner, Love, The Nightingale, and The Foster Mother's Tide.— lSd.] master, the Reverend 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 Lucretius (in such extracts... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...Love, The Nightingale, and The Foster Mother's Tale.— Ed.] ("master, the Reverend James Bowyer.* He early moulded my \ taste to the preference of Demosthenes...Virgil to Ovid. He habituated /me to compare Lucretius (in such extracts as I then read), Ter/ ence, and above all the chaster poems of Catullus, not only... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...and Critical Beviews of the first volume of the Lyrical Ballads.* master, the Reverend 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 hahituated me to compare Lueretins (in such extracts... | |
| Blue - 1867 - 160 pages
...Coleridge, the poet, who has paid a warm tribute to his merits. " He early moulded my taste," says he, " to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero-, of Homer...Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, Terence, E 2 and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the (so called)... | |
| 1869 - 376 pages
...advantage of a very sensible though, at the same time, a very severe master. He early molded my task to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer...Theocritus to Virgil, and, again, of Virgil to Ovid. At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets, he he made us read Shakspeare and Milton... | |
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