philologue

Updated: May 24, 2025

One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist; nor did he here, nor could he well, attempt that course. At the same time, Greek and the Greeks being here before him, he could not fail to gather somewhat from it, to take some hue and shape from it.

Thomas Carlyle - Life of John Sterling

The Italian was my favourite. 'Vous serez un jour un grand philologue, mon cher, said the old man, on our arriving at the conclusion of Dante's Hell. 'I hope I shall be something better, said I, 'before I die, or I shall have lived to little purpose. 'That's true, my dear! philologist one small poor dog. What would you wish to be?

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

I found the French by far the most difficult, chiefly on account of the accent, which my master himself possessed in no great purity, being a Norman by birth. The Italian was my favourite. ‘Vous serez un jour un grand philologue, mon cher,’ said the old man, on our arriving at the conclusion of Dante’s Hell.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

I found the French by far the most difficult, chiefly on account of the accent, which my master himself possessed in no great purity, being a Norman by birth. The Italian was my favourite. "Vous serez un jour un grand philologue, mon cher," said the old man, on our arriving at the conclusion of Dante's Hell.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest