The Etonian, Volumen2Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt H. Colburn and Company and C. Knight., 1824 |
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... seemed to understand correctly the mean- ing of it . The Hon . G. MONTGOMERY conceived it to mean the wreath of Fame ; and whereas the said wreath is generally of laurel , he thought the making it " silver " was nothing more than a ...
... seemed to understand correctly the mean- ing of it . The Hon . G. MONTGOMERY conceived it to mean the wreath of Fame ; and whereas the said wreath is generally of laurel , he thought the making it " silver " was nothing more than a ...
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... 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 pos- sessed of a listless ...
... 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 pos- sessed of a listless ...
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... seemed prudent to conciliate the friendship of those who were powerful in their immediate vicinity , and es- pecially those who were attached to the Saxon succession . Now the Baron , while he detailed his hopes , and his fears , and ...
... seemed prudent to conciliate the friendship of those who were powerful in their immediate vicinity , and es- pecially those who were attached to the Saxon succession . Now the Baron , while he detailed his hopes , and his fears , and ...
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... seemed to be no restraint or inconvenience to him ; and his limbs were as free in the long Saxon robe as they had been wont to be in the short Norman tunic . He reined his horse with a skill which at once excited and curbed his ...
... seemed to be no restraint or inconvenience to him ; and his limbs were as free in the long Saxon robe as they had been wont to be in the short Norman tunic . He reined his horse with a skill which at once excited and curbed his ...
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... seemed irresolute ; he began to reply hastily in a tone between soliloquy and expostulation . " Thou sayest right well , Roger , and with discretion ; yet , by my spurs , a younger head had given warmer counsel ! How think you , my ...
... seemed irresolute ; he began to reply hastily in a tone between soliloquy and expostulation . " Thou sayest right well , Roger , and with discretion ; yet , by my spurs , a younger head had given warmer counsel ! How think you , my ...
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Página 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.
Página 25 - The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual ; the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano ; they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches.
Página 35 - Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
Página 26 - It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too 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...
Página 224 - And it's oh! dear! what can the matter be? Dear! dear! what can the matter be?
Página 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 flushed her spirit.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 132 - The dead are like the stars by day ; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky...
Página 21 - Gainst women : thou thy siege dost lay Much, too, in the female way, While thou suck'st the labouring breath Faster than kisses, or than death. Thou in such a cloud dost bind us That our worst foes cannot find us, And ill fortune that would thwart us Shoots at rovers, shooting at us ; While each man, through thy...