 | 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
...and I dined with Sotheby, where we met a large party, the orator of which was that extraordinary man Coleridge. After eating a hearty dinner, during which...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
...and I dined with Sotheby, where we met a large party, the orator of which was that extraordinary man Coleridge. After eating a hearty dinner, during which...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
...and I dined with Southey where we met a large party, the orator of which was that extraordinary man Coleridge. After eating a hearty dinner, during which...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 516 pages
...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 gerni of all tales about fairies, past, present, and to come. He then diverged to Homer, espousing... | |
 | 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
...and I dined with Sotheby, where we met a large party, the orator of which was that extraordinary man Coleridge. After eating a hearty dinner, during which...learned harangue on the Samothracian Mysteries,"§ &c. Business first, pleasure afterwards, — if at least we may regard that hearty meal as a matter... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 400 pages
...and I dined with Sotheby, where we met a large party, the orator of which was that extraordinary man Coleridge. After eating a hearty dinner, during which...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... | |
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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. 
