The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie, Volumen1,Temas1-101827 |
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... Fair , I will not take upon myself to determine . But my father being resolved that , in his family at least , the Salique law should remain in force , asserted his prerogative , and resolved upon send- ing me to Eton . Now it so ...
... Fair , I will not take upon myself to determine . But my father being resolved that , in his family at least , the Salique law should remain in force , asserted his prerogative , and resolved upon send- ing me to Eton . Now it so ...
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... fair , we scarce can deem- We will not own it as a dream- A fleeting shade in Time's dark river , That passeth soon to fade for ever . GLENARTNEY . Credidimus generi , NOMINIBUSQUE tuis . Historians are , generally speaking , so intent ...
... fair , we scarce can deem- We will not own it as a dream- A fleeting shade in Time's dark river , That passeth soon to fade for ever . GLENARTNEY . Credidimus generi , NOMINIBUSQUE tuis . Historians are , generally speaking , so intent ...
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... fair one , the bright azure of whose eyes is far outdone by those stockings , so " darkly , deeply , beautifully , blue ; " and , lastly , by the sentimental novelist ; who , however she may bravado it to me , would perish sooner than ...
... fair one , the bright azure of whose eyes is far outdone by those stockings , so " darkly , deeply , beautifully , blue ; " and , lastly , by the sentimental novelist ; who , however she may bravado it to me , would perish sooner than ...
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... fair ; He knows not what shall greet him there . The Moor is on his way ; The Spanish chiefs , resolv'd to die , Steadily watch Gonsalvo's eye , In their sublime array . The Abencerrage chiefs advance ; Each warrior waves aloft his ...
... fair ; He knows not what shall greet him there . The Moor is on his way ; The Spanish chiefs , resolv'd to die , Steadily watch Gonsalvo's eye , In their sublime array . The Abencerrage chiefs advance ; Each warrior waves aloft his ...
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... fair to inform the public , though it is probable enough they have discovered it already without my assistance , that I am no very great poet ; were it not for my outlandish friends , Malek the Moor , and Glenartney , I fear I should 46 ...
... fair to inform the public , though it is probable enough they have discovered it already without my assistance , that I am no very great poet ; were it not for my outlandish friends , Malek the Moor , and Glenartney , I fear I should 46 ...
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Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 146 - For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.