 | William Smith - 1873 - 396 pages
...One day (as the story is told) Osburga showed Alfred and his brothers a book of Saxon poetry, and she said, " Whichever of you shall the soonest learn this volume shall have it for his own." On hearing this, and seeing the beauty of the painted initial letter, Alfred cried out before his elder... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - 1878 - 748 pages
...his docile memory, " On a certain occasion his mother was showing him and his brothers a Saxon book of poetry, which she held in her hand and said : 'Whichever...shall have it for his own.' Stimulated by these words, and allured by the beautifully illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume, he spoke before all... | |
 | M. J. Guest - 1879 - 700 pages
...trained him. " On a certain day his mother was showing him and his brothers a Saxon (or English) book of poetry, which she held in her hand, and said, '...rather by the Divine inspiration, and allured by the beautifully-illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume, he spoke before all his brothers, who,... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - 1879 - 746 pages
...his docile memory. " On a certain occasion his mother was showing him and his brothers a Saxon book of poetry, which she held in her hand and said : '...this volume shall have it for his own.' Stimulated by I In'.-,- words, and allured by the beautifully illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume,... | |
 | Montague John Guest - 1894 - 656 pages
...mother trained him. "On a certain day his mother was showing him and his brothers a Saxon (or English) hook of poetry, which she held in her hand, and said,...you shall the soonest learn this volume shall have lt for his own.' Stimulated by these words, or rather by the Divine inspiration, and allured by the... | |
 | D. C. O. Adams - 1901 - 482 pages
...mother.' " On a certain day," Asser tells us, " she was " shewing him and his brother a Saxon book of "poetry, which she held in her hand and said, "...soonest learn this volume, " ' shall have it for his own.1 Stimulated by these "words, or rather by the Divine inspiration, and i Asser. a Alfred's mother... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1902 - 406 pages
...Alfred's mother (perhaps his step-mother) on a certain day showed Alfred and his brothers a Saxon book of poetry, which she held in her hand, and said, "Whichever...by these words, or rather by the Divine inspiration (as Asser says), and allured by the beautifully illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume,... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1904 - 514 pages
...Chronicles t Bonn), p. 48. was showing an illuminated Saxon book of poems to her boys, and remarked " Whichever of you shall the soonest learn this volume, shall have it for his own."1 The beauty of its letters pleased the eye of Alfred. He took the book to his master, learned... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1908 - 314 pages
...you can soonest learn this volume, to him will I give it.' Stimulated by these words, or rather by divine inspiration, and allured by the beautifully...illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume, Alfred spoke before all his brothers, who, though his seniors in age, were not so in grace, and answered... | |
 | 1909 - 328 pages
...man to be unable to read and write. But the queen wished her sons to be scholars as well as soldiers. "Whichever of you shall the soonest learn this volume shall have it for his own," she said to her sons. Little Alfred was standing at her knee, admiring the pictures, and he spoke quickly.... | |
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Stimulated by these words, or rather by the divine inspiration, and allured by the beautifully illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume... 
