Our American children are as precocious in will-power as they are keen-witted, and they need a special discipline.

So we have a right to presume that Cleopatra, when she first appeared upon the stage of history as a girl of fourteen, was simply a very beautiful and accomplished Greek princess, who could speak several languages with fluency, as precocious as Elizabeth of England, skilled in music, conversant with history, and surrounded with eminent masters.

They are certainly far more precocious than English children; they realise the hard struggle for life far more quickly.

Like his relative, Mozart, he was precocious at falling in love.

Then she began to fear I must be ill, and took me to a doctor, who said I was much too precocious for my years, and would be better when the weather got warmer.

It was Keats, the most precocious of all great poets, the stock victim of critical assassination,though the charge does him utter injustice,who declared that "nothing is finer for purposes of production than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.