Reminiscences of Etonauthor, 1831 - 152 עמודים |
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עמוד 40 - That fly th' approach of morn. Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah show them where in ambush stand To seize their prey, the...
עמוד 120 - Young heads are giddy, and young hearts are warm, And make mistakes for manhood to reform. Boys are, at best, but pretty buds unblown, Whose scent and hues are rather...
עמוד 47 - I cannot consider the game of football as being at all gentlemanly. It is a game which the common people of Yorkshire are particularly partial to...
עמוד 70 - ... a favourite and healthy sport in the autumn and winter season, in the school-yard and cloisters ; and in the exercise of which some pretty hard blows arise...
עמוד 32 - ... master, that very day would have seen me kneeling as a culprit. The case was this, and a hard case it was : As I was sitting at the end of a form, the boy next to me said, " That fellow at the other end has been laughing at your red collar, send this piece of orange-peel at his head." head-master. Upon being questioned who had done it, and after having been nudged by the prompter of the act to say, " / did it, sir," at the same time looking at me, as much as to say (as well as to inform the master)...
עמוד 152 - midst rocks, and sands, and eddies, And gathering storms, and dark'ning clouds — unheeding, Its quiet course thro' waves and winds it steadies. My love is with me — and my babes — whose kisses Sweep sorrow's trace from off my brow as fast As gathering there — and hung upon the mast Are harp and myrtle flowers, that shed their blisses On the sweet air. Is darkness on my path ? Then beams bright radiance from a star that hath Its temple in the heaven. As firm as youth I urge my onward way —...
עמוד 43 - ... have fainted. A schoolfellow, one with whom but a few days before I had played, was for ever removed, and nought but earth remained ! It was a long time before Lord C , the innocent cause of his death, recovered from the melancholy into which he was plunged by this untoward circumstance. Poor G 's sorrowing parents (he was, I believe, an only son), immediately returned to Russia in consequence. One of the favourite games among Etonians, is that of football,* which requires great activity and...
עמוד 62 - ... still was it always attended with delight, and the anticipation of something good to follow from it. It was amusing to hear the various remarks made by some of the boys who happened not to have been present at the time of the royal cavalcade passing, and who of course were anxious to hear what had occurred. " Well, what did old George say ? did he say that he would ask for a holiday for us ? By Jove, 1 hope that he will, for I want to ride Stevens 's new chesnut to Egham." " You be hanged," says...
עמוד 52 - Christopher made his appearance in the upper-school. For the time all construing ceased, and our headmaster greeted the modest Sir Christopher with language savouring of the greatest delight. He might have applied to him the words of Cicero to the conspirator Cataline (though not in the language of reproach, but of admiration), in te omnium convertuntur ocuti; the eyes of all were indeed upon him, but they were those of the highest pleasure.
עמוד 28 - I 1 1. at Windsor, that its owner was in residence, and which was always lowered on his departure for London. CHAP. II. High in the midst, surrounded by his peers, Magnus his ample front sublime uprears. Placed on his chair of state he seems a god, While sophs and freshmen tremble at his nod. As all around sit wrapt in speechless gloom, His voice in thunders shakes the sounding dome ; Denouncing dire reproach to luckless fools.