 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...published very soon after his death: — "When i Published by Kearsley, with this well-chosen motto : From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one : And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died fearing Heaven. he walked... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...with princes ;' But not without reason, for if he had faults he had also many virtues : — 4 .... From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Loftv and sour to them that loved him not ; But to... | |
 | Stephen Hyde Cassan - Bishops - 1827 - 618 pages
...Ecclesiastic. - This Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much hoiionr. From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one : Exceeding wise, fair spoken, aud persuading : Lofty and sour, to them that lov'a him not ; But. to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...Himself with princes ;' But not without reason, for if he had faults he had also many virtues : — ' . From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Griffith; I were malicious else. Grif. This Cardinal, Though from a humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour, to them that loved him not; But, to those... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 384 pages
...I were malicious else. Gnf. This cardinal, Though from an humhle stock, undouhtedly Was ftishion'd to much honour from his cradle. He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 522 pages
...Himself with princes; but not without reason, for if he had faults, he had also many virtues:— ' From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; But to those... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...ranking Himself with princes; but not without reason, for if he had faults, he had also many virtues:— From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: Lofly and sour to them that loved him not; But to those... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1829 - 82 pages
...COLL. SS. TRIN. SCHOL. ET SHAKSPEARE. KING HENRY VIII. Act iv. Scene 2. GRIFFITH. KATHARINE. GRIFF. THIS Cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly...cradle, He was a Scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them .that lov'd him not ; But to... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - English language - 1829 - 62 pages
...in all its buoyancy unmingled, uncontaminated and uncorrupted. This Cardinal, Though from an humble, undoubtedly Was fashioned to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading: Lofty and sour o them that lov'd him not; But to those... | |
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From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. 
