The school boy: a poemLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836 - 84 էջ |
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Էջ 76 - I had a great deal. Supposing that I could not be possessed of such a treasure without knowing it, I ventured to confirm my first assertion, by saying, that if I had any I was utterly at a loss to imagine where it could be, or wherein it consisted. Thus ended the conference. Mr.
Էջ vi - I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a pleasure to his mind, which none could understand who had not witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth which they contained.
Էջ 81 - Tower, crossed the sea at Dover; and was received in the English camp before Calais with all the triumph due to her rank, her merit, and her success.
Էջ 75 - Greece, into states and kingdoms ; each fixed upon one as his dominions, and assumed an ancient name. Some of their schoolfellows consented to be styled barbarians, who were to invade their territories, and attack their hillocks, which were denominated fortresses. The chiefs vigorously defended their respective domains against the incursions of the enemy ; and in these imitative wars, the young statesmen held councils, made vehement harangues, and composed memorials ; all doubtless very boyish, but...
Էջ 75 - Bishop of Cloyne, and the celebrated Dr. Parr, were his principal associates. They divided the fields in the neighbourhood of Harrow, according to a map of Greece, into states and kingdoms: each fixed upon one as his dominion, and assumed an ancient name. Some of their school-fellows consented to be styled barbarians, who were to invade their territories and attack their hillocks, which were denominated fortresses.
Էջ 77 - ... the food and the distress! In the last election I remember to have heard a tory orator, opposed to the emancipation of the West Indian slaves, take advantage of the popular cry for economy, and impatience under taxation, and assure his audience, all composed of the labouring part of the population, that to attempt to release the slaves would be to increase the army, and consequently, the national burdens : the orator on the other side of the question, instead of refuting this assertion, was contented...
Էջ 32 - Sun, propitious shine ! How sweet your beams gild the clear-flowing Tyne, That winds beneath our master's garden-brae, With broad bright mazes o'er its pebbly way. See Prudhoe ! lovely in the morning beam : — Mark, mark, the ferry-boat, with twinkling gleam, Wafting fair-going folks across the stream. Look out ! a bed of sweetness breathes below, Where many a rocket points its spire of snow ; And from the Crow-tree Bank the cawing sound Of sable troops incessant poured around ! Well may each little...
Էջ 75 - Cloyne, and the celebrated Dr. Parr, were his principal associates. They divided the fields in the neighbourhood of Harrow according to a map of Greece, into states and kingdoms ; each fixed upon one as his dominion, and assumed an ancient name. Some of their school-fellows consented to be styled barbarians, who were to invade their territories, and attack their hillocks, which were denominated fortresses.
Էջ 81 - Queen went from battle to battle, desiring them to do their devoir, to defend the honour of her lord the King of England, and in the name of God, every man to be of good heart and courage, promising them, that to her power she would remember them as well or better, as though her lord the King were there personally. Then the Queen departed from them, recommending them to God and to Saint George.
Էջ 75 - Jones was rarely a partaker ; and the hours which they allotted to amusement, he {federally devoted to improvement. The following anecdote strongly indicates the turn of his mind, and the impression made by his studies. He invented a play, in which Dr. William Bennet, bishop of Cloyne, and the celebrated Dr. Parr, -were his principal associates, They divided the fields in the neighbourhood of Harrow according to a map of Greece, into states and kingdoms ; each fixed upon one as his dominion, and...