The Etonian, Volume 3Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt H. Colburn and Company and C. Knight., 1824 |
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... wonder , then , that Jenkyns has proved the most conceited youth at Eton ? Conceit , however , is generally a harmless quality , and merely excites the contempt , or , sometimes , the pity of others towards its unfortunate victim . But ...
... wonder , then , that Jenkyns has proved the most conceited youth at Eton ? Conceit , however , is generally a harmless quality , and merely excites the contempt , or , sometimes , the pity of others towards its unfortunate victim . But ...
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... wonder , praise , and admiration of posterity ; they have defied the attacks of time , to which nought belonging to him , save the brick and mortar of his sepulchre , have yielded . His actions have been his monument ; his epitaph is ...
... wonder , praise , and admiration of posterity ; they have defied the attacks of time , to which nought belonging to him , save the brick and mortar of his sepulchre , have yielded . His actions have been his monument ; his epitaph is ...
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... wonder'd , And well repaid those precepts with deep love ; They fear'd no critic's censure - sought no praise-— For critics lived not in those golden days . But I , who am no wine - bibber , and rather With my beef - steak prefer a pot ...
... wonder'd , And well repaid those precepts with deep love ; They fear'd no critic's censure - sought no praise-— For critics lived not in those golden days . But I , who am no wine - bibber , and rather With my beef - steak prefer a pot ...
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... wonder to me , that men , endowed with good sense and powerful abilities , should perpetually be employed in racking their brains , and torturing their powers of in- vention , merely for the purpose of gaining the applause and ...
... wonder to me , that men , endowed with good sense and powerful abilities , should perpetually be employed in racking their brains , and torturing their powers of in- vention , merely for the purpose of gaining the applause and ...
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... wonder , that so many have sought fame by this alluring , though difficult , path . But if we calmly and coolly reflect upon the ob- stacles which many before us have undergone and yielded to in the pursuit of this object , we shall , I ...
... wonder , that so many have sought fame by this alluring , though difficult , path . But if we calmly and coolly reflect upon the ob- stacles which many before us have undergone and yielded to in the pursuit of this object , we shall , I ...
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Æneid Alcinous amuse appear art thou Badoura beauty beneath better boys breath bright CAERNARVON CASTLE Carmarthen cheek College cricket dark dear delight divine dream dress E'en earth Eton Etonian eyes face fair fame fancy father favourite feel gaze gentle give Golightly Gorboduc Greek hand happy hath head hear heard heart Henry Henry Lawson Herodotus Hilla honour hope hour imagine King Arthur King of Clubs Lady laugh Lion lips look Lord Lord Byron maid mind mirth Muse ne'er never night o'er passion Peregrine Courtenay poem Poet Poetry present pretty racter Rashleigh readers Robigo round scene School seemed silent sleep smile song Sonnets soul spirit Stanzas Sterling sure sweet Swinburne tears tell thee thine thing thou thought tion Twas voice Windsor Bridge wish wonder words young youth
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Página 280 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Página 263 - She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Página 238 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Página 285 - INFANT. ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed And bade it blossom there.
Página 30 - And above the firmament that n-ii.H over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Página 30 - And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, \ saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Página 239 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 272 - And should we thither roam, Its echoes, and its empty tread, Would sound like voices from the dead ! Or shall we cross yon mountains blue, Whose streams my kindred nation quaff'd!
Página 31 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Página 325 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.