 | 1830 - 462 pages
...and I rarely ; but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as welL In general information, history fcc. &C. I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing. " The pnxligy of our school-days was George Sinclair,(son of Sir John); he made exercises for half... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 532 pages
...rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing. "The prodigy of our school-days was George Sinclair (son of Sir John) ; he made exercises for half... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 618 pages
...rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing. " The prodigy of our school-days was George Sinclair (son of Sir John) ; be made exercises for half... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 576 pages
...rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, «tec-, ifec. I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing. " The prodigy of our school-days was George Sinclair (son of Sir .Mini; he made exercices for half... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 504 pages
...jEschylus, were received by him but coolly. No one had the least notion that I should subside into poesy. « Peel, the orator and statesman ('that was, or is,...superior, as well as of most boys of my standing. « The prodigy of our school-days was George Sinclair (son of Sir John) ; he made exercises for half... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...and I rarely ; but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c. I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing. SUCCESS. A SUCCESSFUL work makes a man a wretch for life : it engenders in him a thirst for notoriety... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 388 pages
...rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing. " The prodigy of our school-days was George Sinclair (son of Sir John) ; he made exercises for half... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...lesson, and I rarely — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, etc., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing." An interesting anecdote is told of these two lads, redounding to Byron's credit for heroism and sensibility.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing. • " The prodigy of our school-days was George Sinclair ' (son of Sir John) ; he made exercises for... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...lesson, and I rarely — but when I kuew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, f S u H 3 An interesting anecdote is told of these two lads, redounding to Byron's credit fur heroism and sensibility.... | |
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As a scholar he was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy, out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never; and in school, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely, — but when I knew it,... 
