 I will report no other wonder but 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...  The National Quarterly Review - Page 1201862Full view - About this book
 | John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 214 pages
...him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man ; with such staidness of miud, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence...his mind. So as even his teachers found something to observe and learn above that which they had usually read or taught. Which eminence, by nature and... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 212 pages
...lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; witli such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace...above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and hia very play tending to enrich his mind. So as even his teachers found something to observe and learn... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...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...learn, above that which they had usually read or taught ; which eminence by nature and industry made his worthy father style Sir Philip in my hearing (though... | |
 | Robert Steel - Biography - 1890 - 680 pages
...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...his mind, so as even his teachers found something to observe and learn above that which they usually read or taught. Which eminence by nature and industry... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English fiction - 1890 - 466 pages
...I knew him," wrote in later years his friend and companion Fulke Greville, " with such staiednesse of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years." ' During the year 1572 he was staying in France, where he had been appointed by King Charles IX. one... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Chivalry - 1891 - 462 pages
...a child, yet I never knew him other than 1568] At Shrewsbury School. 27 a man ; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace...knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind, so that even his teachers found something in him to observe and learn above that which they had usually... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Chivalry - 1891 - 668 pages
...knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind, so that even his teachers found something it* him to observe and learn above that which they had usually read or taught. Which eminence by nature and industry made his worthy father style Sir Philip in my hearing, though... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1892 - 216 pages
...Greville, Sidney's intimate, said of him : " I never knew him other than a man; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace...knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind" {Life of Sidney, ed. 1652, p. 7). 30 31. Richard Hooker (1553-1600), the author of The Laws of Ecclesiastical... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English prose literature - 1892 - 216 pages
...Greville, Sidney's intimate, said of him : " I never knew him other than a man; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace...knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind" (Life of Sidney, ed. 1652, p. 7). 3031. Richard Hooker (1553-1600), the author of The Laws of Ecclesiastical... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - American literature - 1892 - 192 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 Vears. His talk was ever of knowledge, and his very play tended io enrich the mind. ' Nadder, and nightingales... | |
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