...ion of curiosity which takes possession of a child’s mind, and to which my precocious melancholy gave a sort of sentimental intuition. My sisters were... ...res for joy, and the savor of life is fresh. I stood in the period between puberty and manhood,— the one prolonged by my excessive study, the other ta... ... by emaciation, hollow as those of an old man and, oh, fatal sign, full of precocious intelligence contrasting with his physical debility. When I look...

... bit her lips (for else she might have scream’d) If any said so, for to be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. Amongst her nu... ...sky; If you think ‘t was philosophy that this did, I can’t help thinking puberty assisted. He pored upon the leaves, and on the flowers, And... ... Is not a thing of that astringent quality Which in the North prevents precocious crimes, And makes our snow less pure than our morality; ...

...n Simple Boyhood and Adolescence—The Blossoming Season—on the threshold of Puberty, there is one Unselfish Hour—say, Spiritual Seed-time.” He took car... ... read God’s handwriting on the earth! Now those abominations whom you call precocious boys— your little pet monsters, doctor!—and who can wonder that ... ...tenderest manner, stated that it would give him pleasure to see those same precocious, utterly valueless, scribblings among the cinders, the last re- ...