These Symposia led, in the most natural of ways, to our making appointments to meet on this or that frozen pond or river, and I was sure to be punctual, knowing as I did, from information received, that Helene would be there.
"Fragments of an Autobiography"
Felix Moscheles
Naturally fond of society, and indeed requiring its stimulus to elicit her best powers, Mary yet took a passive rather than an active share in these Symposia.
"The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2)"
Florence A. Thomas Marshall
What happy Symposia at her father's house, when the classic world was opening for the first time to the gaze of the clogged Talmud-student, and the brilliant cynicism of the old doctor combined with the larger outlook of his Christian fellow-pupils to complete his emancipation from his native environment.
"Dreamers of the Ghetto"
I. Zangwill