 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 246 pages
...Jamblichns or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the...Grey Friars reechoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy ! — Many were the " wit-combats " (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller) between... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pages
...waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar while tho walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity -boy !— Many were the " wit-combats " (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller), between him and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1891 - 300 pages
...Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts) or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grrey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy ! — " Many were the wit-combats,"... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 pages
...Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar while the walls...Grey Friars reechoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy ! — Many were the " wit-combats," (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller,) between... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the...re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity boy ! ' * We hear nothing of games, but Coleridge enjoyed bathing excursions in the summer holidays. Once,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 pages
...Jamblichus or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the...Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy! Many were the " wit-combats " (to dally awhile with the words of old Fuller) between him... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 620 pages
...(for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in the Greek, or Pindar, while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed with the accents of the inspired charity-boy." It is interesting to note such a point as that of the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 272 pages
...cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration, to hear thee in thy deep and sweet intonations recite Homer in his Greek, or Pindar, while the walls of...re-echoed to the accents of the inspired Charity boy /" l Yet the heart of Coleridge was never weaned from his first love — the country. In speaking of... | |
 | James Dykes Campbell, Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1896 - 386 pages
...Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar — while the...reechoed to the accents of the inspired charity boy ! l We hear nothing of games, but Coleridge enjoyed bathing excursions in the summer holidays. Once,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1896 - 426 pages
...Jamblichus? or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar— while the...re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity boy ! " (£ssays of Elia.')—^\ The river Otter, in Devon, thus addressed by Coleridge in one of his early... | |
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... with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not... 
