The Etonian, Volum 2H.Colburn, and C.Knight, 1824 |
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Side 11
... short at that time was a good one . His fair preceptresses had gone no farther themselves . With true female fickleness and love of change and novelty , they became tired of any one particular branch of study almost as soon as they had ...
... short at that time was a good one . His fair preceptresses had gone no farther themselves . With true female fickleness and love of change and novelty , they became tired of any one particular branch of study almost as soon as they had ...
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... short ; poetry after all is but an amusement , and when they may en- joy that amusement in highest luxury and most endur- ing profit to their minds why hunt about for scraps and fragments of genius , which , when found , hardly repay ...
... short ; poetry after all is but an amusement , and when they may en- joy that amusement in highest luxury and most endur- ing profit to their minds why hunt about for scraps and fragments of genius , which , when found , hardly repay ...
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... short notice in the pages of " The Etonian . " years To prove , if they will be admitted as proof , that I have some reason for the commendation bestowed upon 20 this writer , I shall content myself with quoting ON CHARLES LAMB'S POETRY ...
... short notice in the pages of " The Etonian . " years To prove , if they will be admitted as proof , that I have some reason for the commendation bestowed upon 20 this writer , I shall content myself with quoting ON CHARLES LAMB'S POETRY ...
Side 40
... short period of his monitor , seemed utterly incapable of thinking seriously , or rather seemed to have made a religious vow against thinking at all . This hopeful descendant of the noble Sir Hugh had arrived at the age of twenty - was ...
... short period of his monitor , seemed utterly incapable of thinking seriously , or rather seemed to have made a religious vow against thinking at all . This hopeful descendant of the noble Sir Hugh had arrived at the age of twenty - was ...
Side 41
... short , assumed an atti- tude of thought , which was little less ridiculous than the thoughtlessness of his companion . After a pause of some minutes , he began to speak , sending out his words with all the caution and circumspection of ...
... short , assumed an atti- tude of thought , which was little less ridiculous than the thoughtlessness of his companion . After a pause of some minutes , he began to speak , sending out his words with all the caution and circumspection of ...
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admiration amusement appeared beautiful Bellamy beneath blue bosom bright Caernarvon Castle Cantab character Charles Lamb charms Courtenay dark daughter dear delight dream dress Edward Overton Effie Elfrida Eton Etonian eyes face fair fancy father favour feelings friends gaze gentle gentleman give glance Golightly Guiscard hand happy hath head hear heard heart honour hope hour Kennet-hold King of Clubs Knave Lady laugh Leofwyn light lips look Lord Lothaire Lozell maiden Menedemus mind Moscow nature never night Norman Number o'er Oakley observed pain pleasure Poem Poet poetry racter raptures readers Reginald d'Arennes replied Robin round Sacrebleu Saxon scene seemed sigh Sigismunda silent smile song Sonnet sorrow soul speak spirit sweet Swinburne syllabub talk Tancred tears tell Thane thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought tion turbed turned voice Weathercock wish words young youth
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Side 97 - 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.
Side 26 - ... from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that
Side 26 - ... insignificant to be thought on; even as he himself neglects it. On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear,— we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms; in the aberrations of his reason, we discover a mighty irregular power of reasoning, immethodized from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth,...
Side 23 - Though it be, as they, perforce, Guiltless of the sad divorce. For I must (nor let it grieve thee, Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee. For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise.
Side 26 - A happy ending ! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through — the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him.
Side 197 - With head up-raised, and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Side 35 - Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
Side 8 - Ishmael among commentators, — his hand was against every man and every man's hand was against him.
Side 20 - A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That...
Side 24 - Any title of her state, Though a widow, or divorced, So I, from thy converse forced, The old name and style retain, A right Katherine of Spain ; And a seat, too, 'mongst the joys Of the blest Tobacco...