The Etonian, Volume 1H.Colburn, and C.Knight, 1824 |
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... mind of the son , and effected as entire a change as the frailty of human nature would allow . His haunts of idleness and extravagance were abandoned , and an end put to all con- nexion with those characters , who , under pretence of ...
... mind of the son , and effected as entire a change as the frailty of human nature would allow . His haunts of idleness and extravagance were abandoned , and an end put to all con- nexion with those characters , who , under pretence of ...
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... mind . He is of a diminutive round stature ; his limbs are well compacted and clean made : in short , he is a neat little miniature . He has small grey twinkling eyes , snubbed nose , decided lines of thought prematurely furrowed on his ...
... mind . He is of a diminutive round stature ; his limbs are well compacted and clean made : in short , he is a neat little miniature . He has small grey twinkling eyes , snubbed nose , decided lines of thought prematurely furrowed on his ...
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... mind , and inattention to outward appear- ances . Though his library is full , and his choice of books good , you will find his study a very chaos . In the centre of one shelf a duodecimo gilt Horace stands along side of a ponderous ...
... mind , and inattention to outward appear- ances . Though his library is full , and his choice of books good , you will find his study a very chaos . In the centre of one shelf a duodecimo gilt Horace stands along side of a ponderous ...
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vestigation into the principles of the human mind , in a long copy of iambics , in which the stabile spondees have their full weight . I am not , however , prepared to assert , that although the harshness of rhythm has been overlooked ...
vestigation into the principles of the human mind , in a long copy of iambics , in which the stabile spondees have their full weight . I am not , however , prepared to assert , that although the harshness of rhythm has been overlooked ...
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... book ; and , having thus strength- ened their minds , he sends them forth to fight in the “ good cause , " as he tells them , like sheep among wolves . There are two distinguishing features in the mental physio- gnomy 12 THE ETONIAN .
... book ; and , having thus strength- ened their minds , he sends them forth to fight in the “ good cause , " as he tells them , like sheep among wolves . There are two distinguishing features in the mental physio- gnomy 12 THE ETONIAN .
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acquaintance admiration amusement appearance Asyndeton Bathos beautiful Blanc bright Burton character cries dear delight dream endeavour Eton Eton College Etonian expression fair fancy fashion favourite fear feel genius gentleman Gerard Montgomery give Godiva Golightly gout hand happy head hear heard heart honour hope King of Clubs Lady Ruthven laugh Laura Lionel look Lord Lord Byron Lord Ruthven lover Lozell manner Marriage Martin Sterling Meeting Members mind Monxton Musgrave nature Nesbit never nickname night Number O'Connor o'er Oakley object observed opinion ourselves passion perceived PEREGRINE COURTENAY pleasure poems poet Poetry present quadrille racter readers recollection RICHARD HODGSON Rowley scene schoolfellows silence smile solitude Sophocles sorrow soul spirit sweet Sylvestra talents taste thanks thee thine thing thou thought tion turned voice Wentworth Whig William Rowley wish words Wordsworth young youth
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Página 124 - 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 287 - Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, 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...
Página 415 - For well she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face. I told her of the knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand ; And that, for ten long years, he wooed The lady of the land.
Página 288 - 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. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft...
Página 292 - 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 283 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 231 - 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 416 - The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long! She wept with pity and delight, She blushed with love and virgin shame; And like the murmur of a dream, I heard her breathe my name. Her bosom heaved — she stepped aside, As conscious of my look she stept — Then suddenly, with timorous eye She fled to me and wept.
Página 413 - 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 287 - But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy! The youth who daily further from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.