 | Malcolm William Wallace - Biography & Autobiography - 1915 - 454 pages
...staiednesse of mind, lovely, and familiar gravity, as carried grace, and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mint} : So as even his teachers found something in him to observe and learn above that which they had... | |
 | Henry Wysham Lanier - Courage - 1920 - 486 pages
...staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending...worthy Father style Sir Philip in my hearing (though I unseen) the Light of his Family — lumen families sues." It was at the very end of a short life that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1917 - 1406 pages
...staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years ; his talk ever of 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 646 pages
...exorbitant smilings of chance." 4 Nor can one suppose that the person whose talk, even as a boy, was " ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind " 5 would be likely to compose 1 The English Novel in, the Time of Shakespeare, London, 1890, p. 234.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 634 pages
...exorbitant smilings of chance." 4 Nor can one suppose that the person whose talk, even as a boy, was " ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind " 5 would be likely to compose 1The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare, London, 1890, p. 234.... | |
 | Marcus Selden Goldman - Literary Criticism - 1934 - 252 pages
...staiednesse of mind, lovely, and familiar gravity, as carried grace, and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind:23 So as even his teachers found something in him to observe, and learn, above that which they... | |
 | Jeanie Watson, Philip McM. Pittman - English literature - 1989 - 308 pages
...staiednesse of mind, lovely, and familiar gravity, as carried grace, and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending...above that which they had usually read, or taught." [6]) and the mythic treatment of Sidney's death—at which, after his compassion outstrips his pain... | |
 | Alfred Leslie Rowse - England - 2003 - 636 pages
...staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending...and learn above that which they had usually read or taught."2 It reminds one of the young Milton at St. Paul's. The master to whom Shrewsbury owed its... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1915 - 242 pages
...staiednesse of mind, lovely, and familiar gravely, as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending...above that which they had usually read or taught.' This, and the fact gathered from the letter addressed to him by his father (1566), that at 12 years... | |
 | American essays - 1914 - 1238 pages
...staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years: his talk ever of 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... | |
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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... 
