seven-years-older

Updated: May 18, 2025

Before he was quite three he used to climb into a chair and preach. There is nothing so uncommon in that. Of Robert Browning, his neighbour and seven-years-older contemporary, the same tale is told. But while the incident that marks the baby Browning is the aside,

W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood - The Life of John Ruskin