boy-enthusiast

Updated: May 22, 2025

Thither came young Patrick Hamilton from Edinburgh, whose "reek" was of so much potency, a boy-enthusiast of nature as illustrious as his birth; and thither came also from England, which is here our chief concern, William Tyndal, a man whose history is lost in his work and whose epitaph is the Reformation.

James Anthony Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.

Thither came young Patrick Hamilton from Edinburgh, whose "reek" was of so much potency, a boy-enthusiast of nature as illustrious as his birth; and thither came also from England, which is here our chief concern, William Tyndal, a man whose history is lost in his work, and whose epitaph is the Reformation.

James Anthony Froude - The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)