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" When he was about seven, he would creep unp'erceived into the kitchen, to teach the servant to read and write; and he continued this for some time before it was discovered that he had been tb/us laudably employed. "
The remains of Henry Kirke White [ed.] with an acount of his life by R. Southey - Page 2
by Henry Kirke White - 1811
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White: Of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College ...

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...
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Account of the life of H. K. White. Poems inserted in the life. Poems ...

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...
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White ...

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;...
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White: Of Nottingham, Late of St. John ..., Volume 1

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;...
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham with an Account of ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White of Nottingham: Late of St. John's ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Edinburgh Monthly Review, Volume 5

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,...
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The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 3

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...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 3

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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