 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Belianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions,' and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son; and that these... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Belianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son; and that these... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Belianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son; and that these... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives and adventures of Don Belianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son; and that these... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 268 pages
...much turned his studies for about a twelvemonth past into the lives and adventures of Don Belianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son ; and that these... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...all the learning on the other side eight years old. I perceived him a very great historian in yEsop's Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, that...Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son : and that these... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Languages, Modern - 1915 - 1054 pages
...had excellent Parts, and was a great Master of all the Learning on t'other Side Eight Years old ... I found he had very much turned his Studies for about...Champions, and other Historians of that Age. . . . He would tell you the Mismanagements of John HicJcathrift, find Fault with the passionate Temper in Bevis... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 pages
...had excellent parts, and was a great master of all the learning on the other side eight years old. I perceived him a very great historian in ^Esop's...Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son ; and that these... | |
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Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures... 
