prodigies quotes

A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

-Jane Austen
  Emma, ch.3.

  A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
c.1737  Irene, act1, sc.1 (first produced1749).