 | Robert Peel - 1853
...scholars, and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior, as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal. As a...of school. I was always in scrapes, and he never; in school he always knew his lesson, and I rarely : but when I knew it, I knew it nearly us well. In... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1891 - Počet stránok 176
...scholars, and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar, he 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 j '1 in scrapes, and he never ; and in school he always knew his lesson, and I rarely; but when I knew... | |
 | Edmund Whytehead Howson, George Townsend Warner - 1898 - Počet stránok 291
...masters, and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he 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, he never." At the Speeches of 1804 the two boys recited together, Byron taking the part of Latinus,... | |
 | 1899
...characterised him throughout his whole career. Lord Byron, who was his contemporary, said of him : ' As a ' schoolboy out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he ' never ; in school he always knew his lesson and I rarely ; ' and Mr. Bowen, in his admirable Harrow songs,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901
...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., etc., I think I was his Superior, as also of most boys of tny standing. 89 [twice]. The prodigy... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1839 - Počet stránok 735
...scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a decbumer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy, out of school, I was always m scrapes, and he never ; and m idtool, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely, — but when I knew... | |
 | James George Cotton Minchin - 1901 - Počet stránok 462
...William Shakespeare. Byron tersely summed up the difference between him and his school friend Peel : " As a school-boy out of school I was always in scrapes, and he never; in school he always knew his 1 Lord Shaftesbury entered Dr. George Butler's House in 1813, he died... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904
...Actor, I was reckoned at least his equal. As a school boy out of school, I was always in scrapes, and ln never ; and in School he always knew his lesson, and...it nearly as well. In general information, history, etc., etc., I think I was his Superior, as also of most boys of my standing. 89 [twice]. The prodigy... | |
 | William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens - 1881
...scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal. As a...rarely ; but when I knew it I knew it nearly as well" Value of Land in the City.— Two or three months ago a special jury, empanelled before Sir Thomas... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1907 - Počet stránok 378
...characterised him throughout his whole career. Lord Byron, who was his contemporary, said of him : " As a schoolboy out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never ; in school, he always knew his lesson and I rarely ; " and Mr. Bowen, in his admirable Harrow songs,... | |
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We were on good terms, but his brother was my intimate friend. There were always great hopes of Peel, amongst us all, masters and scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned... 
