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Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ... - Page 115
by Ben Jonson - 1892 - 166 pages
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Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical ..., Volume 2

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...
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Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments ...

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...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 2

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...lived 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...knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind ; so as even his teachers found something in him to observe, and learn, above that which they had usually...
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Select Reviews, Volumes 1-2

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...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1810 - 438 pages
...lived 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...knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind ; so as even his teachers found something in him to observe, and learn above that which they had usually...
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Select Reviews, Volume 2

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 very play tending to enrich his mind ; so as even his teachers found something in him to ohserve, and learn, ahove that which they had usually...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man : with such a steadiness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as 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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man : with such a steadiness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as 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...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...wit! i him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man, with such a steadiness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above his years." At the age of twelve years he addressed his father in two letters, written in Latin and...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 3

Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 382 pages
...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 carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk was ever of knowledge j and jiig very play tended to enrich his mind." ADMIRAL DRAKE. Admiral Drake,...
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