Coleridge speaks in the Biographia Literaria of having had the "inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time a very severe master, the Reverend James Bowyer [Boyer]," and goes on to attribute to that master's discrimination and thoroughness much of his own classical knowledge and early interest in poetry and criticism.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

He never talked much to me of his own church (knowing my father by name and reputation), only made plain to me the love of God, and taught me to seek it through loving man.
— from Rosin the Beau by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

[Pg 259] because his name appears often in the newspapers, but because of what the men of his own calling know and think of him."
— from The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford