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1751 Verses occasioned by Pope's Wks. 21 The school-boy-genius proud appears, And thinks his Work outshines the Spheres.

1770 T. Chatterton Let. 26 Apr. in Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 511 An old mercantile genius whose school-boy son had a great deal of wit.

1798 R. Polwhele Infl. Local Attachm. 53 Pondering on such a home, our schoolboy friends With expectations flusht anew, we meet.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xviii. 70 Or school-boy Midshipman that..Strains his shrill pipe as good or ill betides.

1882 D. B. W. Sladen Frithjof & Ingeborg 139 When I look upon her face, Making Dick a schoolboy Cid, Rubbing up the feats he did.

1904 Sunset Mag. Mar. 426/1 This relation of the most tragic incident of his life of perilous service from a schoolboy midshipman..to that of a commander in the navy of the United States.

1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 33 What a schoolboy friend..alluded to as ‘that practice introduced by the Greeks of a man having only one wife which is called Monotony.’

1973 M. Barsi-Greene I, Prince Tudor, wrote Shakespeare 39 The play was more apt to have been written by a fun-loving schoolboy genius..such as the fourteen-year-old Francis Bacon.

2010 Sunday Times (Nexis) 5 Dec. (Culture section) 33 [His] book..about the schoolboy son of a lavatory-paper magnate who learns that you can't buy friendship.