| 1804 - 752 pages
...obtain a proficiency in it. But Í will not allow you to excel me in partiality for thofcftudies, fince nothing can exceed my delight in them, from my earlieft years, I was charmed with the poetry of the Greeki ; nothing, I then thought, could be more fublime than the Odes oí Pindar, nothing fweeter than... | |
| William Jones - 1807 - 452 pages
...obtain a proficiency in it. But I will not allow you to excel me in partiality for thofe ftudies, fince nothing can exceed my delight in them. From my earlieft...Pindar, nothing fweeter [than Anacreon, nothing more polifhed or elegant than the golden remains of Sappho, Archilochus, Alcseus, and Simonides : but when... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 470 pages
...obtain a proficiency in it. But I will not allow you to excel me in partiality for thofe ftudies, fince nothing can exceed my delight in them. From my earlieft...Pindar, nothing fweeter [than Anacreon, nothing more polifhed or elegant than the golden remains of Sappho, Archilochus, Alcasus, and Simonides : but when... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Asianists - 1807 - 668 pages
...me in partiality for those1 studies, since nothing can exceed my delight in them. From my earliest years, I was charmed with the poetry of the Greeks ; nothing, I thea thought, could be more sublime than the Odes of" Pindar, nothing sweeter than Anacreon, nothing;... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 360 pages
...me in partiality for those studies, since nothing can exceed my delight in them. From, my earliest years, I was charmed with the poetry of the Greeks ; nothing, I then thought, could be more sublime than the odes of Pindar, nothing sweeter than Anacreon, nothing more polished or elegant than... | |
| Thomas Wright - Authors, English - 1904 - 338 pages
...produced by his book in the most gifted of his pupils. 'From my earliest years,' Jones had written, 'I was charmed with the poetry of the Greeks ; nothing, I then thought, could be more sublime than the odes of Pindar, nothing sweeter than Anacreon, nothing more polished or elegant than... | |
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