Address Before the Alpha Delta Phi Society of Miami University: On the Study of the Classics (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Samuel Eells

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0266173632 ISBN 13 : 9780266173632

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Address Before the Alpha Delta Phi Society of Miami University: On the Study of the Classics

In the spring of 1826 he entered the Clinton Academy, then under the care of Mr. vilmarth. This teacher uccccded in firing him with new interest in all departments of education, and while with him his young pupil became fully possessed of that. Spirit which heeded no difficulties and hesitated before no task. Especially did he discover at. This time an unusual talent for declamation and creditable facility in composition, quite surprising himself by his success. The first production of his own which he exhibited in public was a eulogy on Henry Kirke vliite, which in its style'' both or rhetoric and elocution,''was regarded by those who heard it as indicative of great promise. The fact that. On the threshold of his own short career, he should have been in such sympathy with that brilliant young poet. Whose genius r ''allv destroyed the frail body bv which it was represented, mav almost. Be considered prophetic of what would be true of himself.

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0266173632
• ISBN 13: 9780266173632
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 259
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