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... opinion which he had been in the habit of meeting with at his father's table : nothing is more foreign to the dispositions of the would - be politicians at school , and at Eton in particular , than sycophancy or complaisant con ...
... opinion which he had been in the habit of meeting with at his father's table : nothing is more foreign to the dispositions of the would - be politicians at school , and at Eton in particular , than sycophancy or complaisant con ...
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... opinion of the mul- titude weighed but as dust in the balance , in his discernment be- tween right and wrong ; nay , it generally took a contrary effect . Having paid great attention to ecclesiastical writings , he is be- come a stout ...
... opinion of the mul- titude weighed but as dust in the balance , in his discernment be- tween right and wrong ; nay , it generally took a contrary effect . Having paid great attention to ecclesiastical writings , he is be- come a stout ...
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... opinions of the last speaker ; the latter is in the habit of assenting to no opinion at all . The first is a pliant courtier , disposed to keep in with all parties ; the latter is a sturdy disputant , re- solved to contend with the ...
... opinions of the last speaker ; the latter is in the habit of assenting to no opinion at all . The first is a pliant courtier , disposed to keep in with all parties ; the latter is a sturdy disputant , re- solved to contend with the ...
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... opinion of a gentleman who bore so high a character for honour and integrity as Mr. Sterling . His speech was delivered nearly in the following words : - “ Gentlemen , —I will state to particularly disgusted with the you briefly the ...
... opinion of a gentleman who bore so high a character for honour and integrity as Mr. Sterling . His speech was delivered nearly in the following words : - “ Gentlemen , —I will state to particularly disgusted with the you briefly the ...
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... opinion of the work coincides with my own .- ( Perfectly , from Lo- zell ; -No , from Oakley . ) - You think with me , that the work is not calculated to reflect credit on Eton . You may , perhaps , answer , that the publication was set ...
... opinion of the work coincides with my own .- ( Perfectly , from Lo- zell ; -No , from Oakley . ) - You think with me , that the work is not calculated to reflect credit on Eton . You may , perhaps , answer , that the publication was set ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance admiration amusement appearance Asyndeton Badoura Bathos beautiful beneath Blanc boys bright character cheek cricket dark dear delight dream Edward Overton Eton Eton College Etonian eyes fair fancy father favour favourite fear feel gaze gentle gentleman Gerard Gerard Montgomery give Godiva Golightly hand happy hath head hear heard heart honour hope hour imagination King of Clubs Lady laugh light look Lord Lord Byron Lord Ruthven lov'd Lozell manner marriage meet mind Montgomery Nesbit never night Number o'er Oakley observed opinion passion Peregrine Courtenay pleasure Poem Poet Poetry present Quadrille racter Rashleigh readers RICHARD HODGSON Robigo scene schoolfellows silent sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul spirit Sterling sure sweet talents Tancred tears tell thee thine thing thou thought tion turned voice wish wonder words young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 102 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 222 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Página 313 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Página 222 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 313 - twas like all instruments. Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook, In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 225 - If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him 50 Is in its infancy.
Página 313 - O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Página 285 - There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay : 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.
Página 182 - Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base.
Página 101 - Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me : thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.