Eton in the FortiesR. Bentley and son, 1898 - 458 oldal |
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74. oldal
... dresses . effect the loan of a dazzling cuirass , or a pair of greaves , was a difficult operation , for the Hebrew costumier preferred ready money to credit . Flannels and jerseys , cut and trimmed to 74 ETON IN THE FORTIES.
... dresses . effect the loan of a dazzling cuirass , or a pair of greaves , was a difficult operation , for the Hebrew costumier preferred ready money to credit . Flannels and jerseys , cut and trimmed to 74 ETON IN THE FORTIES.
136. oldal
... dresses , appearing as Highlanders , Swiss peasants , galley - slaves . I suppose that when real busi- ness began , in the first race with Westminster in 1829 , all these follies were banished for ever . It was said that there was a ...
... dresses , appearing as Highlanders , Swiss peasants , galley - slaves . I suppose that when real busi- ness began , in the first race with Westminster in 1829 , all these follies were banished for ever . It was said that there was a ...
312. oldal
... dress , where it could be conveniently stroked and fingered ; for the owner handled him so dexterously and coax- ingly that he seldom , if ever , felt the stings of insect ingratitude . We have Cotton's own account of the forma- tion of ...
... dress , where it could be conveniently stroked and fingered ; for the owner handled him so dexterously and coax- ingly that he seldom , if ever , felt the stings of insect ingratitude . We have Cotton's own account of the forma- tion of ...
319. oldal
... dresses worn at Eton Montem , and other mementoes connected with that once famous event . ' Eton Montem ! How many are there in the present day who had before this ever even heard of the existence of such a thing ? How many of those who ...
... dresses worn at Eton Montem , and other mementoes connected with that once famous event . ' Eton Montem ! How many are there in the present day who had before this ever even heard of the existence of such a thing ? How many of those who ...
324. oldal
... dresses would have suggested that a fancy - dress ball was about to be enacted in the daytime ; but the order and the pre- dominance of the two colours , scarlet and blue , looked more like a military procession , and this was borne out ...
... dresses would have suggested that a fancy - dress ball was about to be enacted in the daytime ; but the order and the pre- dominance of the two colours , scarlet and blue , looked more like a military procession , and this was borne out ...
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admiration Alfred Mynn amongst anthem assistant masters Billy Billy Goodman Bishop boat Boveney Brocas brother Burke and Hare called Cambridge captain of Montem Charles Metcalfe Charley Coleridge contemporary cricket dame's Dean dear dress Duke eleven Elvey Eton boys Eton Chapel Eton Colleger Eton Montem Etonians famous father favourite Fellows Fol de rol fourth-form gentleman George's Chapel Harrow Harry Dupuis Hawtrey Hawtrey's head headmaster heard Hodgson honoured Keate King King's knew lads Latin Lillywhite lived Long Chamber look Lord lower boys match Maule memory Metcalfe never occasion Okes old Eton Colleger old Etonians once oppidans passed Playing-fields Plumptre poor present Provost pupils Queen race recollections remember Royal Salt Hill scholar sent servants sixth-form Snivey song Spankie supposed Surley thing thought tion told took Trant tutor Upper School verses victory Waterloo Westminster Winchester Windsor Bridge Windsor Park words young youth
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61. oldal - Amidst the other ; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea! shaking of earth! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors, Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their...
61. oldal - And therefore is the glorious planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other; whose medicinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check to good and bad.
58. oldal - Pomona loves the orchard ; And Liber loves the vine ; And Pales loves the straw-built shed Warm with the breath of kine ; And Venus loves the whispers Of plighted youth and maid, In April's ivory moonlight Beneath the chestnut shade.
56. oldal - OF old sat Freedom on the heights, The thunders breaking at her feet : Above her shook the starry lights : She heard the torrents meet. There in her place she did rejoice, Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind, But fragments of her mighty voice Came rolling on the wind. Then stept she down thro...
61. oldal - Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...
61. oldal - O, when degree is shak'd, (Which is the ladder to all high designs) The enterprise is sick.
385. oldal - Clearly the rest I behold of the dark-eyed sons of Achaia; Known to me well are the faces of all; their names I remember; Two, two only remain, whom I see not among the commanders, Castor fleet in the car, — Polydeukes brave with the cestus, — Own dear brethren of mine, — one parent loved us as infants.
353. oldal - Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
56. oldal - Then stept she down thro' town and field To mingle with the human race, And part by part to men reveal'd The fulness of her face — Grave mother of majestic works, From her isle-altar gazing down, Who, God-like, grasps the triple forks, And, King-like, wears the crown : Her open eyes desire the truth. The wisdom of a thousand years Is in them. May perpetual youth Keep dry their light from tears ; That her fair form may stand and shine, Make bright our days and light our dreams, Turning to scorn...
385. oldal - Or, though they came with the rest in ships that bound through the waters, Dare they not enter the fight or stand in the council of Heroes, All for fear of the shame and the taunts my crime has awakened ? So said she : — they long since in Earth's soft arms were reposing. There, in their own dear land, their Fatherland, Lacedaemon. English Hexameter Translations, London, 1847, p. 242. I have changed Dr. Hawtrey's