The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie, Volume 1, Issues 1-10 |
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... hate what's called cleverness , and I know you do the same ; whenever I see a clever boy , I kick him , and I hope you do the same . I would have all clever boys kicked , because they don't get flogged , or if they do , they feel it ...
... hate what's called cleverness , and I know you do the same ; whenever I see a clever boy , I kick him , and I hope you do the same . I would have all clever boys kicked , because they don't get flogged , or if they do , they feel it ...
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... yet I feel confident you will agree with me , that there are many Law Reports , many poems , many cumbrous dissertations upon misunderstood points , which ought to be designated by this com- prehensive word and it is chiefly owing ...
... yet I feel confident you will agree with me , that there are many Law Reports , many poems , many cumbrous dissertations upon misunderstood points , which ought to be designated by this com- prehensive word and it is chiefly owing ...
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... Scarce waiting till the day drew nigh , Two mighty hosts were met to die ; The sacred banner of Castile , The very crescent seemed to feel , As they floated idly there ; How ill agreed that lovely night , How ill those distant isles ...
... Scarce waiting till the day drew nigh , Two mighty hosts were met to die ; The sacred banner of Castile , The very crescent seemed to feel , As they floated idly there ; How ill agreed that lovely night , How ill those distant isles ...
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... But yesterday , with flashing eye , And heart where glory's thrill beat high , While his blood rush'd in buoyant tide , He thought upon his promis'd bride ; He thought in victory to feel His father's spirit guide his steel : But the ...
... But yesterday , with flashing eye , And heart where glory's thrill beat high , While his blood rush'd in buoyant tide , He thought upon his promis'd bride ; He thought in victory to feel His father's spirit guide his steel : But the ...
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Go , then , " she said , in noble pride , " I would not be a craven's bride ; I'd give my bosom to the steel To save the pang which I shall feel ; Those lips scarce ting'd with hovering breath , That soaring spirit chill'd in death !
Go , then , " she said , in noble pride , " I would not be a craven's bride ; I'd give my bosom to the steel To save the pang which I shall feel ; Those lips scarce ting'd with hovering breath , That soaring spirit chill'd in death !
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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.
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| Title | The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie, Volume 1, Issues 1-10 The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie, William Ewart Gladstone |
| Author | Eton miscellany |
| Editor | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Published | 1827 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2006 |
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