 | Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - 48 Seiten
...could converse in it fluently. In fact, Dr. Morgan of the Bath Grammar School told a visitor that " That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." When, shortly afterwards, De Quincey ran away from school to escape the necessity of associating with... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - 294 Seiten
...converse in Greek fluently and without embarrassment. " That boy," said his teacher to a stranger, "could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." A year and a half under dull though kind-hearted masters, drove the young Grecian to despair. He appealed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1895 - 88 Seiten
...spirit of the Greek tongue. When he was fifteen, his master remarked of him to a visiting stranger, "That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." At sixteen he was a runaway in Wales and London, hungry, cold, and destitute of money to buy shelter.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1896 - 172 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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1896 - 166 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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1897 - 104 Seiten
...school De Quincey made great strides in Greek ; witness the famous encomium of one of its masters : " That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." In Winkfield and Manchester Schools (1800-2), through the Oxford years (1803-8), and during the Grasmere... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 Seiten
...early life near Manchester and Bath, where, at fifteen, one of his masters in Greek said of him, " That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." After spending some time at Oxford, he settled at Grasmere, near Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 Seiten
...habit of turning the daily papers into Greek. " That boy," said one of his masters to a stranger, " that boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." The year 1800 De Quincey designates as the period of his entry into the world. He was invited by Lord... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 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... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 512 Seiten
...age of fifteen, he was so thoroughly versed in Greek that his professor said of him to a friend : " That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one." De Quincey was sent in this year to the Manchester grammar school, but his mind was in advance of the... | |
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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. 
