Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton CollegeR. Bentley, 1850 - 504 pàgines |
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... ENGLISH SOCIETY , POLITICS , AND LITERATURE , COMPRISED IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO THE COUNTESS OF OSSORY . By HORACE WALPOLE . Edited by the Right Hon . R. VERNON SMITH , M.P. 2 vols . , Svo . , 30s . MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND ...
... ENGLISH SOCIETY , POLITICS , AND LITERATURE , COMPRISED IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO THE COUNTESS OF OSSORY . By HORACE WALPOLE . Edited by the Right Hon . R. VERNON SMITH , M.P. 2 vols . , Svo . , 30s . MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ENGLAND ...
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... ENGLISH HISTORY , IN A NEW SERIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS ; NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS . IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM , STATE PAPER OFFICE , & c . By SIR HENRY ELLIS . 4 vols . , post 8vo . , 24s . MEMOIRS OF THE TWO REBELLIONS IN ...
... ENGLISH HISTORY , IN A NEW SERIES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS ; NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS . IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM , STATE PAPER OFFICE , & c . By SIR HENRY ELLIS . 4 vols . , post 8vo . , 24s . MEMOIRS OF THE TWO REBELLIONS IN ...
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... English history are so little inviting to a thought- less reader as the reign of King Henry the Sixth . The first portion of it presents to our notice a series of defeats and humili- ations abroad ; the latter part supplies the confused ...
... English history are so little inviting to a thought- less reader as the reign of King Henry the Sixth . The first portion of it presents to our notice a series of defeats and humili- ations abroad ; the latter part supplies the confused ...
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... English dominion . Henry's childhood and early youth were chiefly passed at Windsor Castle , where he had been born . His uncles , during his infancy , held the regencies of England and France , while the personal care and education of ...
... English dominion . Henry's childhood and early youth were chiefly passed at Windsor Castle , where he had been born . His uncles , during his infancy , held the regencies of England and France , while the personal care and education of ...
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... English gentleman of the first class would comprehend common reading and writing , a tolerable familiarity with French , and a slight tincture of Latin ; the latter retained or not , according to his circumstances and character , as ...
... English gentleman of the first class would comprehend common reading and writing , a tolerable familiarity with French , and a slight tincture of Latin ; the latter retained or not , according to his circumstances and character , as ...
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Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton College Edward Shepherd Creasy Visualització completa - 1850 |
Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton College Edward Shepherd Creasy Visualització completa - 1850 |
Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton College Edward Shepherd Creasy Visualització completa - 1850 |
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Pàgina 308 - These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart.
Pàgina 489 - Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the Spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread.
Pàgina 313 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
Pàgina 237 - Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper ; they have been wronged ; they have been driven to madness, by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behaviour to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot help repeating them : " Be to her faults a little...
Pàgina 497 - I see the Deep's untrampled floor With green and purple seaweeds strown; I see the waves upon the shore, Like light dissolved in star-showers, thrown: I sit upon the sands alone — The lightning of the noontide ocean Is flashing round me, and a tone Arises from its measured motion, How sweet! did any heart now share in my emotion.
Pàgina 449 - ... it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might — such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates the power to...
Pàgina 496 - THE sun is warm, the sky is clear. The waves are dancing fast and bright Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent might, The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Pàgina 497 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are : I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear...
Pàgina 313 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Pàgina 308 - Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around...