It was at Cambridge that he first met Queen Elizabeth, who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to calling him " the young Lord Keeper ".

The style and themes of the book have been seen to help stretch precocious young readers ' literacy skills, preparing them to approach the works of Dickens and Shakespeare.

The Discontinuity Guide, written by Paul Cornell, Keith Topping, and Martin Day, suggests that " was a precocious young Time Lady, and her name for travel capsules caught on.

The next day, Phil tries to explain anti-Jewish prejudice to his young, precocious son – directly after displaying some anti-female prejudice of his own.

* Thomasina Coverly: The 13 year-old ( later 16-year-old ) daughter of Lord and Lady Croom, Thomasina is a precocious young genius.

* Emily Webb – arguably the main character ; we follow her from a precocious young girl through her wedding to George Gibbs and her early death.

Another fine example of the middle phase of James's career in short narrative is " The Pupil " ( 1891 ), the story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family.

The original screenplay by Neil Simon centers on an odd trio — a struggling actor who has sublet a Manhattan apartment from a friend, the current occupant ( his friend's ex-girlfriend, who has just been abandoned ) and her precocious young daughter.

* Galloanserae young are remarkably precocious.

* Edith Ann is a precocious five-and-a-half year old girl who waxes philosophical on everyday life, either about life as a kid or things for which she feels she has the answers although she is too young to fully understand.

At the age of sixteen young Bahrdt, a precocious lad whose training had been neglected, began to study theology under the orthodox mystic Christian August Crusius ( 1715 – 1775 ), who in 1757 had become first professor in the theological faculty.

Galliform young are very precocious and will roam with their mothers – or both parents in monogamous species – mere hours after hatching.

Early in Burt's life he showed a precocious nature, so much so that his father, a physician, often took the young Burt with him on his medical rounds.

As a child, Lee was a tomboy, a precocious reader, and best friends with her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote.

Although he was precocious and apprenticed at a young age to Jacopo Vignali, Dolci was not prolific.

2 – 4 eggs are typically laid, hatching to give quite precocious young which soon leave the nest and acquire flight.

Frail but precocious, the young Stephens acquired his continued education through the generosity of several benefactors.

But he's married, the dutiful father of a young precocious boy, so Sarah brushes him off.

In the case of mammals it has been suggested that large adult body sizes favor production of large, precocious young, which develop with a long gestation period.

Extreme precocious puberty in children 5 or under is very uncommon ; pregnancy and delivery by a child this young remains extremely rare.

A precocious child, Landon learned to read as a toddler ; an invalid neighbor would scatter letter tiles on the floor and reward young Letitia for reading, and, according to her father, " she used to bring home many rewards.

In it, Lin records in lively, evocative, first-person prose her childhood memories, ending with the death of her father, from the eyes of a precocious, impressionable young girl.

* Kennedy ( Courtney Chase ) – A young, precocious English girl about 8 years old.

Temple often played a fixer-upper, a precocious Cupid, or the good fairy in these films, reuniting her estranged parents or smoothing out the wrinkles in the romances of young couples.

Dementia praecox ( a " premature dementia " or " precocious madness ") refers to a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood.

Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist.

Jean was particularly precocious ; by age 12, he was employed by the bishop as a clerk and received the tonsure, cutting his hair to symbolise his dedication to the Church.

He was not only a precocious child but, as he recalled later in life, a child prodigy who could play pieces by Beethoven on the piano by the time he was twelve.

Hyperlexia was initially identified by Silberberg and Silberberg ( 1967 ), who defined it as the precocious ability to read words without prior training in learning to read typically before the age of 5.

Often, hyperlexic children will have a precocious ability to read but will learn to speak only by rote and heavy repetition, and may also have difficulty learning the rules of language from examples or from trial and error, which may result in social problems.

Also in 1847, another of Joule's presentations at the British Association in Oxford was attended by George Gabriel Stokes, Michael Faraday, and the precocious and maverick William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, who had just been appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

The story is taken up again in Aided Óenfhir Aífe, when the boy, Connla by name, comes to Ireland as Cú Chulainn had instructed, and his precocious prowess alarms the Ulaid.

As a student, he was not especially precocious or industrious, but his work was distinguished by a peculiar reserve and an unusual determination that his hand should be subdued to his eye, with the result that his early works reach their own ideal as surely as those of his maturity.

Bradwardine was a precocious student, educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he was a fellow by 1321 ; he took the degree of doctor of divinity, and acquired the reputation of a profound scholar, a skilful mathematician and an able theologian.

Weil was a precocious student, proficient in Ancient Greek by the age of 12.

In 1944, while performing at London's Royal Albert Hall, Clark was discovered by film director Maurice Elvey, who cast her as precocious orphaned waif Irma in his weepy war drama Medal for the General.

He was helped by his photographic memory and precocious mind.

He showed a precocious talent for drawing and mathematics ; by the age of twelve he had mastered Euclid and opened an evening school for poor children where he taught reading, writing and arithmetic.

An altarpiece painted by Badile in 1543 includes striking passages that were most likely the work of his fifteen-year-old apprentice ; Veronese's precocious gifts soon surpassed the level of the workshop, and by 1544 he was no longer residing with Badile.

Budugu is a precocious and bratty child, characterised by his inimitably childish Telugu.

He was precocious as a baby who began to walk early and learned to read by the age of 18 months.

Although the precocious emperor addressed the senate with a speech blaming Heraklonas and Martina for eliminating his father, he reigned under a regency of senators led by Patriarch Paul II of Constantinople.