The Etonian, Volume 1Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt H. Colburn and Company, 1822 |
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... fear of a second disappointment . As we walked over the estate , we were struck with the improvements made by our friend , both as regarded the comfort and the value of the property ; while now and then we could not suppress a smile on ...
... fear of a second disappointment . As we walked over the estate , we were struck with the improvements made by our friend , both as regarded the comfort and the value of the property ; while now and then we could not suppress a smile on ...
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... fear , Breaks sudden on the startled ear , And hands are clench'd , and cheeks are pale , And from bright blade and ringing mail A thousand hands , with busy toil , Clean off each ancient stain or soil ; Or spots of blood , where truth ...
... fear , Breaks sudden on the startled ear , And hands are clench'd , and cheeks are pale , And from bright blade and ringing mail A thousand hands , with busy toil , Clean off each ancient stain or soil ; Or spots of blood , where truth ...
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... fears , The vices that e'en here are found , The follies that are hovering round ; And learn , that ( treat it as you will ) Our life must be a mockery still . Alas ! the same caprices reign , In courtly hall , or tented plain ; And the ...
... fears , The vices that e'en here are found , The follies that are hovering round ; And learn , that ( treat it as you will ) Our life must be a mockery still . Alas ! the same caprices reign , In courtly hall , or tented plain ; And the ...
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... crony ? Have sober matrons ceas'd to praise The lover of their youthful days ? Are belles less eager to command , With wink and smile , his ready hand ? D Fears he the sudden dissolution Of club - house - The Eve of Battle . 35.
... crony ? Have sober matrons ceas'd to praise The lover of their youthful days ? Are belles less eager to command , With wink and smile , his ready hand ? D Fears he the sudden dissolution Of club - house - The Eve of Battle . 35.
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Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt. Fears he the sudden dissolution Of club - house - or of constitution ? Has the last pipe of hock miscarried ? Has - I forget , last week he married . Thou too thy brilliant helm must don , Etona's ...
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt. Fears he the sudden dissolution Of club - house - or of constitution ? Has the last pipe of hock miscarried ? Has - I forget , last week he married . Thou too thy brilliant helm must don , Etona's ...
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Page 225 - 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 : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on.
Page 403 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Page 225 - 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 — In darkness and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart — How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye!
Page 103 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows , simple wiles , Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 225 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 228 - 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 Is in its infancy.
Page 225 - 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 241 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 320 - 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 103 - 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.