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A History of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, Attached to the ... - Page 288
by Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 486 pages
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King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 490 pages
...your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious else. Grif. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle8. He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading:...
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 5

George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 530 pages
...your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Cromwell ; I were malicious else. Crom. This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour from Ms cradle : He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 35

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 - 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 those men that sought...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 35

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 - 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 those men that sought...
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Roman Catholic bishops

Stephen Hyde Cassan - 1827 - 618 pages
...writer; — and with this I shall close the memoirs of this celebrated and ill-used 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,...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...speak his good now? Kath. Yes, good Griffith; I were malicious else. Grif. This Cardinal, Though from a humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour....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...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 6

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 those men that sought...
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Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by ...

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 men that sought...
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Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and Genius

Nathan Drake - 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 men that sought...
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