 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1887 - 628 pages
...with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I...never known before what intellectual enjoyment was. Oh, that wonderful people ! There is not one art, not one science, about which we may not use the same... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Fine bindings - 1876 - 502 pages
...with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But, when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I...never known before what intellectual enjoyment was. Oh that wonderful people ! There is not one art, not one science, about which we may not use the same... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I...never known before what intellectual enjoyment was. Oh that wonderful people ! There is not one art, not one science, about which we may not use the same... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Historians - 1876 - 414 pages
...with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I had nev* "For if to one whose grief is fresh, as he sits silent with sorrowstricken heart, a minstrel,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1902 - 578 pages
...with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I...never known before what intellectual enjoyment was." Men the most diverse in character and situation among those who have borne a part in shaping the polity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 680 pages
...with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I...never known before what intellectual enjoyment was. Oh that wonderful people ! There is not one art, not one science, about which we may not use the same... | |
 | Education - 1902 - 582 pages
...with Italian during the six months w1 I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish t when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I had n -r known before what intellectual enjoyment was." Men tl st diverse in character and situation among... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Letter-writing - 1908 - 312 pages
...with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But, when I went back to the Greek, I felt as if I...never known before what intellectual enjoyment was. Oh that wonderful people ! There is not one art, nor one science, about which we may not use the same... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1054 pages
...with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went back to the Greek I felt as if I had...a large part of the Greek and Latin classics. The fascination of these studies produced their inevitable effect upon his view of political life. He began... | |
 | Classical philology - 1916 - 612 pages
...enraptured with Italian and little less pleased with Spanish. "But when I went back to the Greek," he says, "I felt as if I had never known before what intellectual enjoyment was." To Macaulay, Homer was "an old ballad-maker who died near three thousand years ago" (Journal, August... | |
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I have gone back to Greek literature with a passion quite astonishing to myself. I have never felt anything like it. I was enraptured with Italian during the six months which I gave up to it ; and I was little less pleased with Spanish. But when I went... 
