 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 396 pages
...which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, The Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son, and that these... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...all the learning on the other side eight years old. I perceived him a very great historian in ^Eaop's uced : " Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall,...and hyacinthine locks Round f:om his parted forel I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son ; and that these... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1887 - 202 pages
...frankly declared to me his mind, that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not bolieve they were true; for which reason I found he had very...Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I couia not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son; and that these... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, ' the...Seven Champions,' and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son, and that these... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1889 - 554 pages
...which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, ' the...Seven Champions." and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son, and that these... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 474 pages
...which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, ' the...Seven Champions,' and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son, and that these... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Belianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son ; and that these... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Belianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son ; and that these... | |
 | Herbert Stuart Stone - 1895 - 588 pages
...Speaking of a child of eight years of age, he says : " I perceived him a very great Historian in &sop's Fables, but he frankly declared to me his Mind, that...Champions, and other Historians of that Age. * * * He would tell you the Mismanagements of John Hickathrift, find fault with the passionate Temper of Betiis... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - English essays - 1896 - 324 pages
...the Kit-Cat. The locus classicus on the subject is in the 24th Tatler. other side eight years old. I perceived him a very great historian in ^Esop's...Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son; and that these... | |
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Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures... 
