 | Amelia Gillespie Smyth - 1834 - 474 sayfa
...mentioned as having questioned him about his pupil. " You write to me that you desire to be informed of our Olympia, because many deem the name and character...High. It is indeed the work of a real Olympia, whom we have known from her infancy, and whose other productions we possess. Nor does it at all astonish us.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1834 - 636 sayfa
...person who had questioned him respecting his pupil. ' " Yon write to me, that you desire to be informed of our Olympia, because many deem the name and character...questions, as well as any of the females among the ancients would have done. Do not feel a doubt respecting the Sapphic ode, written in Greek, in which she celebrates... | |
 | 1834 - 550 sayfa
...person who had questioned him respecting his pupil. ' " You write to me, that you desire to be informed of our Olympia, because many deem the name and character...questions, as well as any of the females among the ancients would have done. Do not feel a doubt respecting the Sapphic ode, written in Greek, in which she celebrates... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1846 - 242 sayfa
...our Olympia, because many deem the name and character fictitious. I will do what you ask willingly, although I might refer you to George Hermann, who...High. It is indeed the work of a real Olympia, whom we have known from her infancy, and whose other productions we possess. Nor does it at all astonish us.... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1855 - 332 sayfa
...mentioned. " I have heard her," one has said, who knew her THE SECRET OP SUCCESS. 195 familiarly, " I have heard her at Court declaiming in Latin, speaking...of the females among the ancients could have done." The same authority adds — " She is skilled in Greek and Roman literature beyond what any one can... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1855 - 334 sayfa
...and was, all that we have mentioned. " I have heard her," one has said, who knew her familiarly, " I have heard her at Court declaiming in Latin, speaking...of the females among the ancients could have done." The same authority adds — " She is skilled in Greek and Roman literature beyond what any one can... | |
 | 1870 - 466 sayfa
...pupil, Curio replies in the following explicit terms: " You write to me that you desire to be informed of our Olympia, because many deem the name and character...answering questions as well as any of the females amoug the ancients could have done. Do not feel a doubt respecting the Sapphic ode written in Greek,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1878 - 604 sayfa
...Greek and in Latin, in imitation of Plato and Cicero. " I have heard her at court," writes Curio, " declaiming in Latin, speaking Greek, and answering...done. Do not feel a doubt respecting the Sapphic Ode, in which she celebrates the praises of the Most High." This ode or hymn was even compared with those... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton - 1891 - 298 sayfa
...arranged from contemporary and other authorities. London, 1834. 8vo. Her tutor Curio wrote of her : " I have heard her at Court declaiming in Latin, speaking...doubt respecting the Sapphic Ode, written in Greek. It is indeed the work of a real Olympia^ whom we have known from her infancy." MORE, HENRY. A modest... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton - 1891 - 312 sayfa
...London, 1834. 8vo. Her tutor Curio wrote of her : " I have heard her at Court declaiming in Lntin, speaking Greek, and answering questions, as well as...doubt respecting the Sapphic Ode, written in Greek. It is indeed the work of a real Olympia, whom we have known from her infancy." MORE, HENRY. A modest... | |
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I will do what you ask willingly, and shortly, although I might refer you to George Hermann, who knows her well. Her father was Fulvio Morata, a native of Mantua, a man famous for learning and probity, with whom I was very intimate. I have heard her at... 
