Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Cause for Dislike
M.L. Clarke, Greek Studies in England 1700-1830 (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1945), p. 224 (on Eliezar Cogan and his school at Walthamstow):
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The most eminent of his pupils was Benjamin Disraeli, who, though never in the highest form, read a considerable amount of Latin and Greek while at the school.3 If his knowledge of the languages was somewhat superficial, this was to be ascribed to his character rather than to Cogan's teaching. 'I don't like Disraeli,' said Cogan, 'I could never get him to understand the subjunctive.'
3 Monypenny, Life of Disraeli, I, p. 24 f.
