 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 826 pages
...one or two of these lions ; and, first, Coleridge, at feed, before exhibition : — " After eating я hearty dinner, during which he spoke not a word, he...learned harangue on the Samothracian Mysteries, which ha regards as affording the germs of all tales about fairies, past, present, and to come. He then diverged... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 830 pages
...can notice but one or two of these lions ; and, first, Coleridge, at feed, before exhibition :— " After eating a hearty dinner, during which he spoke not a word, he began a most learned harangue on th» Samothracian Mysteries, which he regards as affording the geruu of all tales about fairies, past,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 396 pages
...— but we must hope the best. Anne went with her sister. " Lockhart and I dined with Sotheby, where we met a large party, the orator of which was that...learned harangue on the Samothracian Mysteries, which he regards as affording the germ of all tales about fairies past, present, and to come. He then diverged... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 396 pages
...— but we must hope the best. Anne went with her sister. " Lockhart and I dined with Sotheby, where we met a large party, the orator of which was that...learned harangue on the Samothracian Mysteries, which he regards as affording the germ of all tales about fairies past, present, and to come. He then diverged... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1868 - 330 pages
...my skull too thick." Again, in his Diary, 22nd April 1828: "Lockhart and I dined with Southey where we met a large party, the orator of which was that...began a most learned harangue on the Samothracian mysterics, which he regarded as affording the germ of all tales about fairics, past, present and to... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 402 pages
...hope the best. Anne went with her sister. " Lockhart and I dined with Sotheby, where we __- — naet-a large party, the orator of which was that extraordinary...learned harangue on the Samothracian Mysteries, which he regards as affording the germ of all tales about fairies past, present, and to come. He then diverged... | |
 | 1852 - 526 pages
...describing a dinner-party at Sotheby's, at which Coleridge was present, says that the great talker, after eating a hearty dinner, during which he spoke not a word, began a most learned harangue on the Samothracian Mysteries, which he regarded as affording the germ... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - Physicians - 1858 - 520 pages
...where we met a large party, the orator that extraordinary man, Coleridge. After eating a hearty dinner, he spoke not a word, he began a most learned harangue on the Mysteries, which he regards, as affording the germ of all tales about Present and to come. He then... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1862 - 688 pages
...by a cursory record in Sir Walter Scott's Diary. Thus : " Lockhart and I dined with Sotheby, where we met a large party, the orator of which was that...learned harangue on the Samothracian Mysteries,"§ &c. Business first, pleasure afterwards, — if at least we may regard that hearty meal as a matter... | |
 | Manchester (England). Grammar school - Manchester (England) - 1868 - 334 pages
...my skull too thick." Again, in his Diarg, 22nd April 1828: "Lockhart and I dined with Southey where we met a large party, the orator of which was that extraordinary mao Coleridge. After eating a hearty dinner, during which he spoke not a word, he began a most learned... | |
| |
Mysteries, which he regards as affording the germ of all tales about fairies past, present, and to come. He then diverged to Homer, whose Iliad he considered as a collection of poems by different authors, at different times, during a century. 
