The Etonian, Volume 1Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt H. Colburn and Company, 1822 |
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... frequently so far obscured by the intervention of the latter , that their very existence has been often unjustly questioned . A year or two back , at the time when the character of a schoolboy is on the point of deciding itself for life ...
... frequently so far obscured by the intervention of the latter , that their very existence has been often unjustly questioned . A year or two back , at the time when the character of a schoolboy is on the point of deciding itself for life ...
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... frequently steal away from a comfortable fire - side to wander on a chilly autumn evening in the gloom of Poet's Walk , with his arms folded , to commune with solitude , to watch the fleecy clouds as they past over the glimmering moon ...
... frequently steal away from a comfortable fire - side to wander on a chilly autumn evening in the gloom of Poet's Walk , with his arms folded , to commune with solitude , to watch the fleecy clouds as they past over the glimmering moon ...
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... frequently a cold one , in which no interest was shown ; a matter of course ; an old deed , to which , for decency's sake , they felt themselves obliged to put their signatures , at the recommendation of parents , or from the force of ...
... frequently a cold one , in which no interest was shown ; a matter of course ; an old deed , to which , for decency's sake , they felt themselves obliged to put their signatures , at the recommendation of parents , or from the force of ...
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... frequent sarcasms levelled at him by his brother members , render him a most agreeable addition to our party : but as ... frequently hear him discussing the merits of rival patissiers , while Martin Sterling is on his right * " Fahm is a ...
... frequent sarcasms levelled at him by his brother members , render him a most agreeable addition to our party : but as ... frequently hear him discussing the merits of rival patissiers , while Martin Sterling is on his right * " Fahm is a ...
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... frequently urged , that it is the province of boys rather to learn than to teach . I acquiesce , Gentlemen , in the justice of this remark ; and I am of opinion that our progress in learning would be very much furthered by the adoption ...
... frequently urged , that it is the province of boys rather to learn than to teach . I acquiesce , Gentlemen , in the justice of this remark ; and I am of opinion that our progress in learning would be very much furthered by the adoption ...
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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.