The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... thing that I can remember in my childhood is , that I early acquired a taste for poetry ; and I have still in mind some of my juvenile effusions , which my mother often rewarded with sugar - plums , but my father with birch . My chief ...
... thing that I can remember in my childhood is , that I early acquired a taste for poetry ; and I have still in mind some of my juvenile effusions , which my mother often rewarded with sugar - plums , but my father with birch . My chief ...
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... thing better than a rope of sand , had it not been for that soft , musical , and inimitably flexible language , which threw a spell over the most insig- nificant places , and illuminated the poorest charac- ters ? Again , when Alexander ...
... thing better than a rope of sand , had it not been for that soft , musical , and inimitably flexible language , which threw a spell over the most insig- nificant places , and illuminated the poorest charac- ters ? Again , when Alexander ...
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... thing been done at Court , " the answer is the same . If I ask , " Is there any news at the Stock - Exchange ... things " nothing " ? Is there no stock - jobbing ? no hypocrisy ? is this " nothing " Falsehoods are disseminated : this is ...
... thing been done at Court , " the answer is the same . If I ask , " Is there any news at the Stock - Exchange ... things " nothing " ? Is there no stock - jobbing ? no hypocrisy ? is this " nothing " Falsehoods are disseminated : this is ...
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... 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 - nothing Epistle : by the way , I call it good for ...
... 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 - nothing Epistle : by the way , I call it good for ...
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... things in Number Two : I promise an Express shall come With news from Pandemonium : I promise many a sober page , To soothe the angry critic's rage ; Good things of all kinds there ye'll see , " Quæ longum est præscribere . " Come now ...
... things in Number Two : I promise an Express shall come With news from Pandemonium : I promise many a sober page , To soothe the angry critic's rage ; Good things of all kinds there ye'll see , " Quæ longum est præscribere . " Come now ...
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