The Etonian, Volum 2H.Colburn, and C.Knight, 1824 |
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Side 28
... line , I held much question with myself whether I should assimilate my metre to that of my original , as is the case in the above - mentioned admirable work , or embody the ideas of my author in the rhythm of the ancient Greeks . For of ...
... line , I held much question with myself whether I should assimilate my metre to that of my original , as is the case in the above - mentioned admirable work , or embody the ideas of my author in the rhythm of the ancient Greeks . For of ...
Side 46
... line- age from the hall of the Saxon Thane . Nevertheless , when his aged attendant whispered his suspicions of meditated treason , and intimated the propriety of return- ing , he gazed on the adviser , and then on the page , and then ...
... line- age from the hall of the Saxon Thane . Nevertheless , when his aged attendant whispered his suspicions of meditated treason , and intimated the propriety of return- ing , he gazed on the adviser , and then on the page , and then ...
Side 63
... line of conversation into which they had fallen did not seem likely to promote kinder feelings between them . Reginald's national prejudices began to rise high within him , and to overpower the want of energy which was his failing ...
... line of conversation into which they had fallen did not seem likely to promote kinder feelings between them . Reginald's national prejudices began to rise high within him , and to overpower the want of energy which was his failing ...
Side 101
... lines from an Elegy which I have had in my drawer for some time , and from which I intended to have made an extract in my last Scrap- Book . In vain for me the flow'ret rears its head , The warbling linnet pours her song in vain ; I ...
... lines from an Elegy which I have had in my drawer for some time , and from which I intended to have made an extract in my last Scrap- Book . In vain for me the flow'ret rears its head , The warbling linnet pours her song in vain ; I ...
Side 102
... lines , and half suspect that the author is only bamming us . However , there is something singular in the composition , and my readers shall therefore have a specimen . The verses are as wild as their subject : - What ! blame thee ...
... lines , and half suspect that the author is only bamming us . However , there is something singular in the composition , and my readers shall therefore have a specimen . The verses are as wild as their subject : - What ! blame thee ...
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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...