| Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1808 - 698 pages
...read and write ; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant,...his childhood, ever produced any thing truly great. When Henry was about six, lie was placed under the Rev. John Blancliard, who kept, at that time, the... | |
| Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English literature - 1808 - 380 pages
...read and write; and he continued this for some time before it was .discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant,...gave it to this servant, being ashamed to show it to hb mother. The consciousness of genius is always at first accompanied with this diffidence; it is a... | |
| Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1813 - 730 pages
...read and write ; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant,...composition, and gave it to this, servant, being ashamed to shew it to his mother. The consciousness of genius is always at first accompanied with this diffidence;... | |
| Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1813 - 404 pages
...read and write; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant,...composition, and gave it to this servant, being ashamed to shew it to his mother. The consciousness of genius is always at first accompanied with this diffidence;... | |
| Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 398 pages
...read and write ; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant,...composition, and gave it to this servant, being ashamed to shew it to his mother. The consciousness of genius is always at first accompanied with this diffidence... | |
| Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1820 - 302 pages
...and gave it to this servant, heing ashamed to show it to his mother. The consciousuess of genius it always at first accompanied with this diffidence ;...his childhood, ever produced any thing truly great. When Henry was ahout six, he was placed under the Rev John Blanchard, who kept, at that time, the hest... | |
| 1821 - 732 pages
...read and write ; and he continued this for some time before it wag discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant,...this servant, being ashamed to show it to his mother. " AVhen Henry was about eleven years old, he one day wrote a separate theme for every boy in his class,... | |
| Henry Kirke White - 1823 - 462 pages
...read and write; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant,...this diffidence; it is a sacred, solitary feeling. And perhaps, no forward child, however extraordinary the promise of his childhood, ever produced any... | |
| Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...read and write ; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that be had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant,...composition, and gave it to this servant, being ashamed to shew it to his mother. " The consciousness of genius," says Mr. Southey, " is always, at first, accompanied... | |
| Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 382 pages
...read and write ; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that he had been thus laudably employed. He wrote a tale of a Swiss emigrant, which was probably his first composition, and gaveitto this servant, being ashamed to show it to his mother. " The consciousness of genius," says... | |
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