The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie, Volume 1, Issues 1-101827 |
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... character , and although the old say- ing , that " nothing " can arise out of " nothing , " has been held , and is still held by some , a sound and undisputed maxim of philosophy , I have always had some doubts upon the subject , and ...
... character , and although the old say- ing , that " nothing " can arise out of " nothing , " has been held , and is still held by some , a sound and undisputed maxim of philosophy , I have always had some doubts upon the subject , and ...
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... characters of imps of hell ; jumped out of bed , fell on the floor , cut my head , and was confined to my room for a week . ” Here my friend came in , and we joked together , when he showed me a list of his Godchildren , which I at ...
... characters of imps of hell ; jumped out of bed , fell on the floor , cut my head , and was confined to my room for a week . ” Here my friend came in , and we joked together , when he showed me a list of his Godchildren , which I at ...
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... character should be found wanting in strength , vigour , or originality , it will be owing to inability on my part , and not to de- ficiency on his . The friend and coadjutor , then , to whom I shall now endeavour to do justice , is a ...
... character should be found wanting in strength , vigour , or originality , it will be owing to inability on my part , and not to de- ficiency on his . The friend and coadjutor , then , to whom I shall now endeavour to do justice , is a ...
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... character which I may here- after mention ; at present I offer him to the public , such as I found him , a wild , inflexible , poetical Cambro- Briton . ON ENNUI . With your permission , friend Bouverie , 54 [ NO . 11 . THE ETON ...
... character which I may here- after mention ; at present I offer him to the public , such as I found him , a wild , inflexible , poetical Cambro- Briton . ON ENNUI . With your permission , friend Bouverie , 54 [ NO . 11 . THE ETON ...
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... character , and of any events that might interest us as bearing on his conduct through life , we are , however , almost entirely ignorant ; nor has the present edition done much to remove the obscurity in which former biographers had ...
... character , and of any events that might interest us as bearing on his conduct through life , we are , however , almost entirely ignorant ; nor has the present edition done much to remove the obscurity in which former biographers had ...
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Page 64 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Page 189 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 43 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented...
Page 146 - For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Page 189 - And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again!
Page 126 - t be possible — of blood : Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul ; acknowledge what thou art, A wretch, a worm, a nothing ; weep, sigh, pray Three times a day, and three times every night ; For seven days...
Page 125 - No, father; in your eyes I see the change Of pity and compassion; from your age, As from a sacred oracle, distils The life of counsel: tell me, holy man, What cure shall give me ease in these extremes ? Friar.
Page 188 - But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me: A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong!
Page 104 - Every quarter of the city was illuminated ; the great temple shone with such peculiar splendour, that the Spaniards could plainly see the people in motion, and the priests busy in hastening the preparations for the death of the prisoners.
Page 157 - tis but a sound ; a name of air ; A minute's storm ; or not so much : to tumble From bed to bed, be massacred alive By some physicians for a month or two, In hope of freedom from a fever's torments, Might stagger manhood ; here, the pain is past 1 [Half a page omitted.] * [Two lines omitted.] Ere sensibly 'tis felt.