The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... delight was in the " Poet's corner " of a newspaper ; but I con- sidered a Review by no means contemptible reading . At length , in order to check this propensity to poetry , which my father considered at best a very useless ...
... delight was in the " Poet's corner " of a newspaper ; but I con- sidered a Review by no means contemptible reading . At length , in order to check this propensity to poetry , which my father considered at best a very useless ...
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... brave as ever knight Who couch'd in rest his spear ; He waited for the morrow's fight , He waited with a fierce delight , To run his first career . But yet he felt a solemn thrill , As he 32 [ NO . I. THE ETON MISCELLANY .
... brave as ever knight Who couch'd in rest his spear ; He waited for the morrow's fight , He waited with a fierce delight , To run his first career . But yet he felt a solemn thrill , As he 32 [ NO . I. THE ETON MISCELLANY .
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... delight , His grave the trophy of the fight ,, And there lay down , in tranquil rest , The relics of a bleeding breast . " " Clara , farewell ! the only tie Which binds me yet to life , Clara , farewell ! I thus defy The danger of the ...
... delight , His grave the trophy of the fight ,, And there lay down , in tranquil rest , The relics of a bleeding breast . " " Clara , farewell ! the only tie Which binds me yet to life , Clara , farewell ! I thus defy The danger of the ...
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... delight ; And amid the crash of shivering spears , The hot blood's maddening flow , It were worth the life of a thousand years , To be first for a moment now . [ To be continued . ] MALEK . THE MISERIES OF GODFATHERS . I almost ...
... delight ; And amid the crash of shivering spears , The hot blood's maddening flow , It were worth the life of a thousand years , To be first for a moment now . [ To be continued . ] MALEK . THE MISERIES OF GODFATHERS . I almost ...
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... delights some classes of our readers , yet it bears strong traces of genius , and of genius unassisted by art . Its greatest fault is its inequality , for it runs , as it were , the course of the comet , at one time illuminated by the ...
... delights some classes of our readers , yet it bears strong traces of genius , and of genius unassisted by art . Its greatest fault is its inequality , for it runs , as it were , the course of the comet , at one time illuminated by the ...
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