 | Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1794 - 564 pages
...lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; with fuch fleadinefs of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk was ever of knowledge; and his very play tended to enrich his mind." He was an aBive fupporter of the... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1796 - 634 pages
...lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; with fuch fteadinefs of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above grcater.years. His talk was ever of knowledge; and his very play tended to enrich his mind." He was... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
..."lined with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man, with such staiednesse of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace...talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enricb his mind ; so as even his teachers found something in him to obserre, and learn, above that... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pages
...man, with such staiednesse of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence ahove greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his...so as even his teachers found something in him to ohserve, and learn, ahove that which they had usually read or taught. Which eminence hy nature and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...Stephens, and Pascal, may be added the name of Philip Sidney ; ' of whose youth (says his biographer |) I will report no other but this, that though I lived...carried grace and reverence above greater years. His * This was, indeed, the age of female excellence. Now flourished Lady Jane Gray, and her sisters; the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...Stephens, and Pascal, may be added the name of Philip Sidney ; ' of whose youth (says his biographer^:) I will report no other but this, that though I lived...carried grace and reverence above greater years. His * This was, indeed, the age of female excellence. Now flourished Lady Jane Gray, and her sisters; the... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...though I lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man, with such steadiness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as...grace and reverence above greater years. His talk was ever of knowledge ; and his very play tended to enrich his mind. ADMIRAL DRAKE. Admiral Drake,... | |
 | 1829 - 682 pages
...man,"—to use the words of his playmate and friend, Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke—" Such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace...above that which they had usually read or taught." His thirst for knowledge indeed was so universal, that he was not content with cultivating only one... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...gravity, as carried grace and revere»ce above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his every play tending to enrich his mind ; so as even his teachers...and learn above that which they had usually read or thought. Which eminence by nature and industry, made his worthy father style Sir Philip in my hearing... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...than this ; that though I lived with him, and knew him from a child yet I ncvf г knew him other I han a man ; with such a steadiness of mind, lovely and...knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind, во as even his teachers found something in him to observe and learn, above that which they hod usually... | |
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I will report no other wonder than this, that, though I lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man ; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years ; his... 
