 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 talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending...  Dictionary of National Biography - Page 216edited by - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...Lord Brook, who was his intimate friend, and who has written an account of his life, fays, fl Though I lived with him, and knew him " from a child, yet I never knew him other " than a man; with fuch fteadinefs of " mind, lovely arid familiar gravity, as car' ' ried grace and reverence above greater... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1794 - 564 pages
...Lord Brook, who was his intimate friend, and who has written an account of his life, fays, " Though I 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...never to have been a boy. The language of sir Fulke Greville is that of truth and of the heart. " I 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 and reverence above greater years.... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...never to have been a boy. The language of sir Fulke Greville is that of truth and of the heart. "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 and reverence above greater years.... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 424 pages
...youth," says one of his biographers, " I will report no other but this; that though I lived witti * 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... | |
 | 1810 - 438 pages
...never to have been a boy. The language of Sir Fulke Greville is that of truth and of the heart. 'I 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 and reverence above greater years.... | |
 | 1809 - 448 pages
...never to have heen a hoy. The language of sir Fulke Greville is that of truth and of the heart. " I lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other tlian a man, with such staiednesse of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...Philip Sidney ; ' of whose youth (says his biographer |) I will report no other 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 a steadiness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...Philip Sidney ; ' of whose youth (says his biographer^:) I will report no other 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 a steadiness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years.... | |
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