The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie, Količina 1 ,Izdaje 1–101827 |
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Stran 7
... able to show , that I can " keep my head above water " in more senses than one . But in my present undertaking , there is one gulph in which I fear to sink ; and that gulph is Lethe . There is one stream which I dread my inability to ...
... able to show , that I can " keep my head above water " in more senses than one . But in my present undertaking , there is one gulph in which I fear to sink ; and that gulph is Lethe . There is one stream which I dread my inability to ...
Stran 27
... able to ride ; In a fortnight you'll walk , in a month you'll be well ; But you're still very sick , I can perfectly tell . But none in their senses can ever compare To your health , Sir , to - day , what you yesterday were : ' Tis the ...
... able to ride ; In a fortnight you'll walk , in a month you'll be well ; But you're still very sick , I can perfectly tell . But none in their senses can ever compare To your health , Sir , to - day , what you yesterday were : ' Tis the ...
Stran 39
... his homely fare , his smiling wife , and children climbing up the knees of their sire , and so forth ; but it always appeared to me , that they never had been able to hit upon the true cause of NO . 1. ] 39 THE ETON MISCELLANY .
... his homely fare , his smiling wife , and children climbing up the knees of their sire , and so forth ; but it always appeared to me , that they never had been able to hit upon the true cause of NO . 1. ] 39 THE ETON MISCELLANY .
Stran 40
Eton miscellany William Ewart Gladstone. had been able to hit upon the true cause of the bachelor's misery ; for the touchstone of his misfor- tunes is the certainty of being solicited to become a Godfather . Every unmarried man is sure ...
Eton miscellany William Ewart Gladstone. had been able to hit upon the true cause of the bachelor's misery ; for the touchstone of his misfor- tunes is the certainty of being solicited to become a Godfather . Every unmarried man is sure ...
Stran 44
... able to think that the single line ] Ως ̓ ὅιγ ̓ ἀμφίεπον τάφον Εκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο , is an ending of sufficient grandeur to suit the sub- limity of what has gone before . Pope seems to have thought the same : for he has inserted in his ...
... able to think that the single line ] Ως ̓ ὅιγ ̓ ἀμφίεπον τάφον Εκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο , is an ending of sufficient grandeur to suit the sub- limity of what has gone before . Pope seems to have thought the same : for he has inserted in his ...
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Abencerrages admiration ANTISTROPHE Bartholomew Bouverie beams bear beauty blood brave breast breath bright brow character Club Cockney courser dark dead dear death delight despair dinner dread e'en endeavour Eton College Eton Miscellany Etonian fair falchion fame farewell fate father favour fear feel FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE genius GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN give gloom glory grave grief hand hath head hear heard heart Heaviside hero honour hope hour humble Jermyn labours light look Lord Lord Byron lov'd lyre merit mind nature neath never night Number o'er perhaps pleasure poetry poets praise pride Proteus proud racter readers scene shades shore silent sleep smile sorrow soul sound spirit sword tear tell thee thine thing thou thought tion tomb Utopia Virgil virgin band voice wave wild young youthful
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Stran 64 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Stran 189 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Stran 43 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented...
Stran 146 - For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Stran 189 - And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again!
Stran 126 - t be possible — of blood : Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul ; acknowledge what thou art, A wretch, a worm, a nothing ; weep, sigh, pray Three times a day, and three times every night ; For seven days...
Stran 125 - No, father; in your eyes I see the change Of pity and compassion; from your age, As from a sacred oracle, distils The life of counsel: tell me, holy man, What cure shall give me ease in these extremes ? Friar.
Stran 188 - But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me: A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong!
Stran 104 - Every quarter of the city was illuminated ; the great temple shone with such peculiar splendour, that the Spaniards could plainly see the people in motion, and the priests busy in hastening the preparations for the death of the prisoners.
Stran 157 - tis but a sound ; a name of air ; A minute's storm ; or not so much : to tumble From bed to bed, be massacred alive By some physicians for a month or two, In hope of freedom from a fever's torments, Might stagger manhood ; here, the pain is past 1 [Half a page omitted.] * [Two lines omitted.] Ere sensibly 'tis felt.