The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... Fair , I will not take upon myself to determine . But my father being resolved that , in his family at least , the Salique law should remain in force , asserted his prerogative , and resolved upon send- ing me to Eton . Now it so ...
... Fair , I will not take upon myself to determine . But my father being resolved that , in his family at least , the Salique law should remain in force , asserted his prerogative , and resolved upon send- ing me to Eton . Now it so ...
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... fair , we scarce can deem- We will not own it as a dream- A fleeting shade in Time's dark river , That passeth soon to fade for ever . GLENARTNEY . Credidimus generi , NOMINIBUSQUE tuis . Historians are , generally speaking , so intent ...
... fair , we scarce can deem- We will not own it as a dream- A fleeting shade in Time's dark river , That passeth soon to fade for ever . GLENARTNEY . Credidimus generi , NOMINIBUSQUE tuis . Historians are , generally speaking , so intent ...
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... fair one , the bright azure of whose eyes is far outdone by those stockings , so " darkly , deeply , beautifully , blue ; " and , lastly , by the sentimental novelist ; who , however she may bravado it to me , would perish sooner than ...
... fair one , the bright azure of whose eyes is far outdone by those stockings , so " darkly , deeply , beautifully , blue ; " and , lastly , by the sentimental novelist ; who , however she may bravado it to me , would perish sooner than ...
Page 38
... fair ; He knows not what shall greet him there . The Moor is on his way ; The Spanish chiefs , resolv'd to die , Steadily watch Gonsalvo's eye , In their sublime array . The Abencerrage chiefs advance ; Each warrior waves aloft his ...
... fair ; He knows not what shall greet him there . The Moor is on his way ; The Spanish chiefs , resolv'd to die , Steadily watch Gonsalvo's eye , In their sublime array . The Abencerrage chiefs advance ; Each warrior waves aloft his ...
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... fair to inform the public , though it is probable enough they have discovered it already without my assistance , that I am no very great poet ; were it not for my outlandish friends , Malek the Moor , and Glenartney , I fear I should 46 ...
... fair to inform the public , though it is probable enough they have discovered it already without my assistance , that I am no very great poet ; were it not for my outlandish friends , Malek the Moor , and Glenartney , I fear I should 46 ...
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Abencerrages admiration ANTISTROPHE Bartholomew Bouverie beam bear beauty beneath blood brave breast breath bright brow Bull cacoethes character Christmas pie Club courser dark dead dear death delight Der Freischütz doom doubt e'en endeavour Ennui Eton College Eton Miscellany Etonian falchion fame farewell fate father favour fear feel flame fortune genius give glaive gloom glory grave hand happy hear heart Heaviside hero honour hope Horace humble hush'd imagination imitation Jermyn kittens lady Lake of Killarney Lethe light look lord mean merit mind nature never night Nonsense o'er perhaps pericranium pleasure Pluto poetry poets pride Proteus racters readers scene seem'd sense shore soul sound spear spirit sword tears tell thee thing thou thought tion tomb Twas Utopia venture verses Virgil virgin band wave wild wish woes word