The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... write ? " Should some wag reply , " Why should you ? " I can only repeat what a much wiser man has said before me , " Semper ego auditor tantùm ? ” or , if that be deemed an unsatisfactory answer , acknowledge that I , among others ...
... write ? " Should some wag reply , " Why should you ? " I can only repeat what a much wiser man has said before me , " Semper ego auditor tantùm ? ” or , if that be deemed an unsatisfactory answer , acknowledge that I , among others ...
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... writing down the English word over the Latin or Greek , which is ex- pressly forbidden . 12. That the members of the Club use no other than Pote's edition of the Classics . 13. That it be considered highly honourable to eat , drink ...
... writing down the English word over the Latin or Greek , which is ex- pressly forbidden . 12. That the members of the Club use no other than Pote's edition of the Classics . 13. That it be considered highly honourable to eat , drink ...
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... write upon it : for although few are candid enough to permit their writings to go by their real name , yet I feel confident you will agree with me , that there are many Law Reports , many poems , many cumbrous dissertations upon ...
... write upon it : for although few are candid enough to permit their writings to go by their real name , yet I feel confident you will agree with me , that there are many Law Reports , many poems , many cumbrous dissertations upon ...
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... write such execrable stuff as this , should start forth at forty - three a fervid , delicate , impassioned votary of the Muses , is one of those phenomena which awaken the interest even of the obtuser portion of mankind ( because even ...
... write such execrable stuff as this , should start forth at forty - three a fervid , delicate , impassioned votary of the Muses , is one of those phenomena which awaken the interest even of the obtuser portion of mankind ( because even ...
Page 64
... powerful operation ; so it is , that every " writer had his peculiar style , and was content with it . * Gifford . Introduction , pp . 44 , 45 . 66 " At present , we are become an imitative 64 [ NO . II . THE ETON MISCELLANY .
... powerful operation ; so it is , that every " writer had his peculiar style , and was content with it . * Gifford . Introduction , pp . 44 , 45 . 66 " At present , we are become an imitative 64 [ NO . II . THE ETON MISCELLANY .
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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