School-days of Eminent Men: I. Sketches of the Progress of Education in England, from the Reign of King Alfred to that of Queen Victoria. II. Early Lives of Celebrated British Authors, Philosophers and Poets, Inventors and Discoverers, Divines, Heroes, Statesmen and LegislatorsFollett, Foster, 1860 - 309 oldal |
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18. oldal
... relate , too , that his father , observing his disposition , never omitted any means of cherishing his lively prudence ; and that once when he had been ill - used by one of his brothers , and was in tears , he spirited him up , by ...
... relate , too , that his father , observing his disposition , never omitted any means of cherishing his lively prudence ; and that once when he had been ill - used by one of his brothers , and was in tears , he spirited him up , by ...
41. oldal
... relates this extra- ordinary instance of the adulation paid to this minor sovereign : " Henry VI . , when but eight months old , sat in his mother's lap in the parliament chamber ; and the speaker made a famous præ- position , in which ...
... relates this extra- ordinary instance of the adulation paid to this minor sovereign : " Henry VI . , when but eight months old , sat in his mother's lap in the parliament chamber ; and the speaker made a famous præ- position , in which ...
44. oldal
... relates that- When King Henry met some of the students in Windsor Castle , whither they sometimes used to go to visit the King's servants , whom they knew , on ascertaining who they were , he admonished them to follow the path of virtue ...
... relates that- When King Henry met some of the students in Windsor Castle , whither they sometimes used to go to visit the King's servants , whom they knew , on ascertaining who they were , he admonished them to follow the path of virtue ...
58. oldal
... relates , that Henry VI . washing his hands at a great feast , at his newly - founded College at Eton , turned toward the boy Henry and said : " This is the lad which shall possess quietly that that we now strive for ; " which ...
... relates , that Henry VI . washing his hands at a great feast , at his newly - founded College at Eton , turned toward the boy Henry and said : " This is the lad which shall possess quietly that that we now strive for ; " which ...
66. oldal
... relate to state affairs , and evince an in- timate knowlege of the domestic and foreign policy of his gov- ernment , and his anxious concern for the welfare of his people . But the most striking of his existing productions are " King Ed ...
... relate to state affairs , and evince an in- timate knowlege of the domestic and foreign policy of his gov- ernment , and his anxious concern for the welfare of his people . But the most striking of his existing productions are " King Ed ...
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Abbey admiration afterward Alfred ancient Anglo-Saxon became Ben Jonson Bishop born boyhood boys brother called Cambridge Castle celebrated century Charles child Christ's Hospital Christchurch church classical College court Duke Earl early Edward Edward IV eminent England English English language Eton Eton College father favorite foundation French George grammar grammar-school Greek Harrow School Henry Henry VI honor instruction John King King's knowledge Lady Lanfranc language Latin learning letters literature London Lord master mind monastery mother noble Oxford period person poem poet poetry poor present Prince pupil Queen recorded reign religious Richard Robert royal Saxon says scholars school-fellows schoolmaster sent Shakspeare Southey taught Thomas Thomas à Becket tion took translated tutor University verses Westminster Westminster School William William of Wykeham Winchester Winchester College Windsor Castle writing written wrote young youth
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187. oldal - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed : Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
187. oldal - WAKE, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run, Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice...
217. oldal - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
192. oldal - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
116. oldal - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
116. oldal - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
173. oldal - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
216. oldal - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way.
217. oldal - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
173. oldal - Even when I was a very young boy at school, instead of running about on holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book, or with some one companion, if I could find any of the same temper.