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... Reason . .28 1. Written on the last leaf of Shak- speare 2. Written from Hartland Point ... ib . 3. Dunster Hermitage , Page 60 .61 The Eve of Battle ........ ..32 4. Barle - Edge Abbey .. .ib . A Visit to Eton ...... .42 On the ...
... Reason . .28 1. Written on the last leaf of Shak- speare 2. Written from Hartland Point ... ib . 3. Dunster Hermitage , Page 60 .61 The Eve of Battle ........ ..32 4. Barle - Edge Abbey .. .ib . A Visit to Eton ...... .42 On the ...
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... reasons which in- indecorous and unjust insinuation duce me to hope that our worthy conveyed by the letter of Senex , President may be allowed to con- in No. III . , which attributes to tinue his remarks on the Eton the Etonians of the ...
... reasons which in- indecorous and unjust insinuation duce me to hope that our worthy conveyed by the letter of Senex , President may be allowed to con- in No. III . , which attributes to tinue his remarks on the Eton the Etonians of the ...
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... the purpose of celebrating the success of the first Number of " The Etonian . " - The Meeting then adjourned . RICHARD HODGSON , Knave of Clubs , F SECRETARY . RHYME AND REASON . " Non eadem est ætas , No. 1. ] 27 The King of Clubs .
... the purpose of celebrating the success of the first Number of " The Etonian . " - The Meeting then adjourned . RICHARD HODGSON , Knave of Clubs , F SECRETARY . RHYME AND REASON . " Non eadem est ætas , No. 1. ] 27 The King of Clubs .
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RHYME AND REASON . " Non eadem est ætas , non mens . " - HORACE . HE whose life has not been one continued monotony ; he who has been susceptible of different passions , opposite in their origins and effects ... Reason . Rhyme and Reason.
RHYME AND REASON . " Non eadem est ætas , non mens . " - HORACE . HE whose life has not been one continued monotony ; he who has been susceptible of different passions , opposite in their origins and effects ... Reason . Rhyme and Reason.
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... Reason . " We arrived at the farm as Jonathan was sitting down to his substantial breakfast . We were delighted to see our old friend , now in the decline of life , answering so exactly the description of Cowper , - " An honest man ...
... Reason . " We arrived at the farm as Jonathan was sitting down to his substantial breakfast . We were delighted to see our old friend , now in the decline of life , answering so exactly the description of Cowper , - " An honest man ...
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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
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 101 - Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me : thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.