...wig,' his ' storms that came near, but never touched,' recorded by Lamb ; and Coleridge's testimony to the ' inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though, at the same time, very severe master.' I seemed to hear his scornful voice criticising a theme : ' Harp ? lyre ? —...

...master, the Rev. James Bowyer, who early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cieoro, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid, Ac." He made extraordinary advances in scholarship, and amassed a vast variety of miscellaneous knowledge,...

...Mariner, Love, The Nightingale, and The Foster Mother's Tide.— lSd.] master, the Reverend James Bowyer* He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theoeritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius (in such extracts...

...perhaps with inferior success, to impress on my later compositions. At school (Christ's Hospital), I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe * [This is certainly not strictly accurate, if the date of the publication of the Biographia (1817)...

...perhaps with inferior success, to impress on my later compositions. At school (Christ's Hospital), I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe * [This is certainly not strictly accurate, if the date of the publication of the Biogrnphia (1817)...

...carry us back to the period of the Monastic Schools. " He early moulded my taste," says Coleridge, " to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer...Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the (socalled)...

...carry us back to the period of the Monastic Schools. " He early moulded my taste," says Coleridge, "to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer...Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the (socalled)...

...Coleridge, the poet, who has paid a warm tribute to his merits. " He early moulded my taste," says he, " to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero-, of Homer...Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, Terence, E 2 and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the (so...

...of Boyer's qualifications as a teacher, see Coleridge's Eiographia Literaria, the passage beginning, "At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of...sensible, though at the same time a very severe master." Elsewhere Coleridge entirely confirms Lamb's and Leigh Hunt's accounts of Boyer's violent temper, and...

...would alone have mace his memory perpetual. We give the following remembrance of his school-life: — At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a...though, at the same time, a very severe master. He early molded my task to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and,...