 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Temple, of that !' Letters of Boswell, p. 34. See ante, p. 65, and post, ii. 41. He told Windham in 1784 'that he read Latin with as much ease when he went to college as at present.' Windham 's Diary, p. 17. to study. It is pleasing to consider that the old gentleman's gloomy prophecy... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...Temple, of that !' Letters of Boswell, p. 34. See ante, p. 65, and post, ii. 41. He told Windham in 1784 'that he read Latin with as much ease when he went to college as at present.' Windham 's Diary, p. 17. to Aetat. 54.] Remedies for melancholy. 5 1 7 to study. It is pleasing to... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...sufficient to make it pleasurable. The difficulties of the language overpower the desire of reading the author. " That he read Latin with as much ease when he went to college as at present." 440. Ovid's Fasti — Wotton. — Wood. " Recommended the reading the Fasti of Ovid, — also Wotton,... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...sufficient to make it pleasurable. The difficulties of the language overpower the desire of reading the author. " That he read Latin with as much ease when he went to college as at present." 440. Ovid's Fasti. — Wotton. — Wood. "Recommended the reading the Fasti of Ovid, — also Wotton,... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...sufficient to make it pleasurable. The difficulties of the language overpower the desire of reading the author. " That he read Latin with as much ease when he went to college as at present." 440. Ovid's Fasti.— Wotton.— Wood. " Recommended the reading the Fasti of Ovid, — also Wotton,... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...sufficient to make it pleasurable. The difficulties of the language overpower the desire of reading the author. " That he read Latin with as much ease when he went to college as at present." 440. Ovid's Fasti. — Wotton. — Wood. " Recommended the reading the Fasti of Ovid, — also Wotton,... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...sufficient to make it pleasurable. The difficulties of the language overpower the desire of reading the author. That he read Latin with as much ease when he went to college as at present (1784). — Windham. JOHNSON said several excellent things that evening (November 30th, 1784). He spoke... | |
 | William Windham - Great Britain - 1866 - 616 pages
...the way. 30$. — Arrived, after seeing Lord Vernon's house by the way, in good time at Ashbourne. Johnsonian Memorandum of Conversation. The credit...to have appended some translations from Lucian to bis ' Utopia.' Ed. Basil, 1563, 8vo. ; Oxon. 1663, 8vo. C His opinion of that fact of Sir Thomas Hearne,... | |
 | William Windham - Great Britain - 1866 - 608 pages
...amusements is to beguile time, and fill the interval between active thought and perfect vacuity. Graevius and Benedictus give the palm to Sir Thomas More,*...to have appended some translations from Lucian to hi* ' Utopia.' Ed. Basil, 1563, 8vo.; Oion. 1663, 8vo. C His opinion of that fact of Sir Thomas Hearne,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1892 - 488 pages
...distress, every modification of heroic character, battles, storms, ghosts, incantations, &c. Dr. Johnson said he had never read through the Odyssey completely...between his quitting school and going to College. Commended Ovid's description of the death of Hercules — doubted whether Virgil would not have loaded... | |
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J. said he had never read through the ' Odyssey' completely in the original. Anecdote of his first declamation at college ; that having neglected to write it till the morning of his being to repeat it, and having only one copy, he got part of it by heart... 