The Blue-coat Boys: Or, School Life in Christ's Hospital. With a Short History of the FoundationE. W. Allen, 1877 - 126 páginas |
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aldermen amongst annual appointed authorities beadle beer benefactor birch Blue-Coat boy Blue-Coat School boy's Boyer bread bullies butter called carried CHAPTER character Charity Charles Lamb cheese Christ's Hospital church cloisters Coleridge common Crug D'Arcy Thompson dinner discipline dress duties Edward eight eminently Eton Fazzer fellow flogging foundation friends gave the sum Governors Grecians Grey Friars hall hand Head Master Hertford institution John Bancks King Leigh Hunt London looked Lord Mayor mathematical matron Matthew's Day meat ment monitors morning mutton never Newgate Street night nurses occasion offence old Blue once ordered peculiar poor position potatoes Præfects present public schools punishment Queen received remember respect Ridley roast beef round Royal sarcophagus says scholars sermon Spanker steward subst Sunday supper tion Tyburn verb ward whilst wooston words worthy Yorkshire pudding young young sinner youth
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Página 49 - Come back into memory, like as thou wert in the dayspring of thy fancies, with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician, Metaphysician, Bard ! — How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula) to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of...
Página 100 - ... on Fridays — and rather more savoury, but grudging, portions of the same flesh, rotten-roasted or rare, on the Tuesdays (the only dish which excited our appetites, and disappointed our stomachs, in almost equal proportion) — he had his hot plate of roast veal, or the more tempting griskin (exotics unknown to our palates), cooked in the paternal kitchen...
Página 49 - Many were the wit-combats betwixt him and Ben Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 50 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 99 - Saturday, coarse and choking, were enriched for him with a slice of "extraordinary bread and butter," from the hot -loaf of the Temple. The Wednesday's mess of millet, somewhat less repugnant — (we had three banyan to four meat days in the week) — was endeared to his palate with a lump of doublerefined, and a smack of ginger (to make it go down the more glibly) or the fragrant cinnamon. In lieu of our...
Página 49 - Cloisters stand still, entranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries of Jamblichus, or Plotinus (for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts), or reciting Homer in his Greek, or Pindar— —while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy! — Many were the "wit-combats...
Página 81 - ... small-clothes of Russia duck ; worsted yellow stockings; a leathern girdle; and a little black worsted cap, usually carried in the hand. I believe it was the ordinary dress of children in humble life during the reign of the Tudors. We used...
Página 88 - God's-mylife!" When you were out in your lesson, he turned upon you a round staring eye like a fish ; and he had a trick of pinching you under the chin, and by the lobes of the ears, till he would make the blood come. He has many times lifted a boy off the ground in this way. He was, indeed, a proper tyrant, passionate and capricious; would take violent likes and dislikes to the same boys ; fondle some without any apparent reason, though he had a leaning...
Página 8 - is the sword of the Spirit, and to be preferred before these swords. That ought in all right to govern us, who use them for the people's safety by God's appointment. Without that sword, we are nothing, we can do nothing, we have no power. From that we are what we are this day.
Página 161 - ... at home will feel ; he will speak up when spoken to, but the stranger must begin the conversation with him. Within his bounds he is all fire and play ; but in the streets he steals along with all the self-concentration of a young monk. He is never known to mix with other boys, they are a sort of laity to him. All this proceeds, I have no doubt, from the continual consciousness which he carries about him of the difference of his dress from that of the rest of the world...