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My chief delight was in the " Poet's corner " of a newspaper ; but I con- sidered a Review by no means contemptible reading . At length , in order to check this propensity to poetry , which my father considered at best a very useless ...
My chief delight was in the " Poet's corner " of a newspaper ; but I con- sidered a Review by no means contemptible reading . At length , in order to check this propensity to poetry , which my father considered at best a very useless ...
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... and of all sizes -prose and verse- ( much more prose indeed than poetry ) —most formidable in appearance , and by no means less so to the luckless wight who attempts a closer examination - surely , I say , I may venture forth ...
... and of all sizes -prose and verse- ( much more prose indeed than poetry ) —most formidable in appearance , and by no means less so to the luckless wight who attempts a closer examination - surely , I say , I may venture forth ...
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There are many such omissions ; but that which I shall venture to enlarge a little upon , is certainly of the most paramount importance - I mean , the constant neglect with which these over- weening gentlemen treat the names of the ...
There are many such omissions ; but that which I shall venture to enlarge a little upon , is certainly of the most paramount importance - I mean , the constant neglect with which these over- weening gentlemen treat the names of the ...
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... that it is by no means impossible -Ex fumo dare lucem ; " and to show , that from what is by the generality of mankind denominated " nothing , " spring all the most important events which daily take place around us .
... that it is by no means impossible -Ex fumo dare lucem ; " and to show , that from what is by the generality of mankind denominated " nothing , " spring all the most important events which daily take place around us .
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How can people be so mean ! how can they expect to reap advantage at such a distance ? Few people have their fortunes made by their Godfathers . Why , then , do they not bring up their children to some honourable profession , instead of ...
How can people be so mean ! how can they expect to reap advantage at such a distance ? Few people have their fortunes made by their Godfathers . Why , then , do they not bring up their children to some honourable profession , instead of ...
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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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