 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1849 - 454 Seiten
...the way. Pen never liked to halt, but made his tutor construe when he was at fault, and thus galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragic play-writers,...vowed to be the greatest poet of all). But he went at such a pace that, though he certainly galloped through a considerable extent of the ancient country,... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 276 Seiten
...tower of Ottery church. Thackeray describes the youthful Pendennis as galloping through " the Iliad and Odyssey, the tragic playwriters, and the charming...Aristophanes, whom he vowed to be the greatest poet of all." When the author was about the age of his young hero, he borrowed of Dr. Cornish Carey's translation... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 294 Seiten
...tower of Ottery church. Thackeray describes the youthful Pendennis as galloping through " the Iliad and Odyssey, the tragic playwriters, and the charming...Aristophanes, whom he vowed to be the greatest poet of all." When the author was about the age of his young hero, he borrowed of Dr. Cornish Carey's translation... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 528 Seiten
...when he was at fault, and thus galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragic pi ay_- writers, and the charming wicked Aristophanes (whom he vowed...he certainly galloped through a considerable extent ofthe ancient country, he clean forgot it in afterHfe,and had only such a vague remembrance of his... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 846 Seiten
...he was at fault, and thus galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragic play-writers, ¡nid the charming wicked Aristophanes (whom he vowed to...ancient country, he clean forgot it in after-life, anil had only such a vague remembrance of his early classic course as a man has in the House of Commons,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 850 Seiten
...the way. Pen never liked to halt, but made his tutor construe when he was at fault, and thus galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragic play-writers,...all). But he went so fast that, though he certainly gallo{>ed through a consjderable extent of the ancient couutry^Jie clean forgot it in after-life^ and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 900 Seiten
...the way. Pen never liked to halt, but made his tutor construe when he was at fault, and thus galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragic play-writers,...country, he clean forgot it in after-life, and had only sucli a vague remembrance of his early classic course as a man has in the House of Commons, let us... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 762 Seiten
...absolutely, ie with its head-word understood, does not give rise to much special comment. Pen... galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragic play-writers,...Aristophanes '(whom he vowed to be the greatest poet of a/0. THACK., Pend., I, Ch. Ill, 35. A few general observations are all which are necessary by way of... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1904 - 482 Seiten
...tower of Ottery Church. Thackeray describes the youthful Pendennis as galloping through ' the Iliad and Odyssey, the tragic playwriters, and the charming...Aristophanes, whom he vowed to be the greatest poet of all.' When the author was about the age of his young hero he borrowed of Dr. Cornish Carey's translation... | |
 | Kate Dickinson Sweetser - 1907 - 388 Seiten
...at fault, and thus galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey and the charming, wicked Aristophanes. But he went so fast that though he certainly galloped...extent of the ancient country, he clean forgot it in after life. Besides the ancient poets, Pen read the English with great gusto. Smirke sighed and shook... | |
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Aristophanes (whom he vowed to be the greatest poet of all). But he went so fast that, though he certainly galloped through a considerable extent of the ancient country, he clean forgot it in afterlife... 
