 | John Timbs - 1860 - Страниц: 322
...greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a school-boy out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never,...it nearly as well. In general information, history, etc., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing." * He was (says his biographer,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1896 - Страниц: 598
...was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never ; and in school he always knew his lessons, and I rarely ; but when I knew it well, I knew it nearly as well ; and in general information,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1851 - Страниц: 884
...was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal. As a school-boy out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never; and in school he always knew his lessou, and I rarely; but "when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In fneral information, history,... | |
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As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a school-boy out of School, I was always in scrapes, and he never ; and in School, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely — but when I knew it,... 
