The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... Opinion . I have ventured , and , no doubt , rashly ventured , " Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders , To try my fortune in a sea of glory , But far beyond my depth ! " At present , it is hope alone that buoys me up ; for more ...
... Opinion . I have ventured , and , no doubt , rashly ventured , " Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders , To try my fortune in a sea of glory , But far beyond my depth ! " At present , it is hope alone that buoys me up ; for more ...
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... opinion , protested he knew no more than the dead what Lethe meant . While the House was in hesitation upon this point , Mr. Lernill rose , and said , that as the former motto appeared to be too difficult , he could supply them with one ...
... opinion , protested he knew no more than the dead what Lethe meant . While the House was in hesitation upon this point , Mr. Lernill rose , and said , that as the former motto appeared to be too difficult , he could supply them with one ...
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... opinions , I might have borne with patience this series of unprovoked mortifications ; but ever since I read Mr. Southey's Laureate odes , the poetic feelings of a Stubbs have stedfastly at- tached me to Church and King : nor shall I ...
... opinions , I might have borne with patience this series of unprovoked mortifications ; but ever since I read Mr. Southey's Laureate odes , the poetic feelings of a Stubbs have stedfastly at- tached me to Church and King : nor shall I ...
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... opinion , that " nothing " is the cause of " every thing " ? 66 ' Quicquid agunt homines , votum , timor , ira , voluptas , Gaudia ; discursus . " I am sorry to have given you so much trouble in perusing this empty and good - for ...
... opinion , that " nothing " is the cause of " every thing " ? 66 ' Quicquid agunt homines , votum , timor , ira , voluptas , Gaudia ; discursus . " I am sorry to have given you so much trouble in perusing this empty and good - for ...
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... opinion , that my letter iş " better than nothing , " since , as you will see , I have already come to a conclusion . L. L. 3 THE PREDICTION . ' Tis night - in Guadalquiver's stream The stars reflected wildly gleam ; " Tis night ...
... opinion , that my letter iş " better than nothing , " since , as you will see , I have already come to a conclusion . L. L. 3 THE PREDICTION . ' Tis night - in Guadalquiver's stream The stars reflected wildly gleam ; " Tis night ...
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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