 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 454 Seiten
...fluently and without embarrassment." Perhaps it may have been true of him as one of his masters said : H That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." Almost every great poet, great orator, or great writer of memorable prose, has had this faculty, It... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 572 Seiten
...fifteen he wrote and conversed in Greek with such readiness that his schoolmaster said to a friend, "that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." The history of his early years is derived principally from his semi-autobiographical book " Confessions... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 Seiten
...unwillingly. He worked hard in his own way, and at a preceding school his master had said of him to a friend, .i7o6) ADDISON. STEELE. SWIFT. FARQUHAR 781 28. Swift, who had graduated as DD in 1701, was in Lond was now an abiding grievance to him that an enthusiastic head master continued his lessons into the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 Seiten
...Greek fluently and without embarrassment." Perhaps it may have been true of him as one of his masters said : " That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." Almost every great poet, great orator, or great writer of memorable prose, has had this faculty, It... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1904 - 140 Seiten
...pupilage, a full-blown scholar, thinker, and conversationist. " That boy," said one of his teachers, "could harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one." "In me," says De Quincey himself, "though naturally the shyest of human beings, intense commerce with... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1905 - 184 Seiten
...far in advance of that of ordinary pupils of his years. " That boy," his master at Bath School had said, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." He was sent to Manchester Grammar School, however, in order that after three years' stay he might secure... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1906 - 162 Seiten
...furnish extempore." " That boy," said one of his masters, calling the attention of a stranger to him, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." But a greater triumph from the first attended De Quincey's Latin verses. The head-master, disappointed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1906 - 206 Seiten
...with ease, and compose lyric poems in both Latin and Greek. One of his masters said to a visitor : "That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." In his fifteenth year he was entered at the Manchester Grammar School for a term of three years, where... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 964 Seiten
...grammar schools of Bath and Manchester, especially in Greek. "That boy." said one of his teachers, ''could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." He ran away frum the Manchester school, and had a brief adventurous career among the Welsh hills and... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1907 - 174 Seiten
...moral essays, etc. " That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." He who honoured me with this eulogy, was a scholar, " and a ripe and good one : " and, of all my tutors,... | |
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That boy," said one of my masters, pointing the attention of a stranger to me, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one. 
