The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie, Volume 1, Issues 1-101827 |
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... objects of legitimate ambition - it is at these alone we aim . Fame we cannot , we dare not aspire to ; indulgence we may presume upon ; and we commit our humble offering to the world , with the hope and the confidence , that those will ...
... objects of legitimate ambition - it is at these alone we aim . Fame we cannot , we dare not aspire to ; indulgence we may presume upon ; and we commit our humble offering to the world , with the hope and the confidence , that those will ...
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... the experience of all ages tends to confirm , that every man who writes is more or less fired with ambition , and that his object is not so much to T > promote the pleasure and instruction of his readers 74 [ NO . 11 . THE ETON MISCELLANY .
... the experience of all ages tends to confirm , that every man who writes is more or less fired with ambition , and that his object is not so much to T > promote the pleasure and instruction of his readers 74 [ NO . 11 . THE ETON MISCELLANY .
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... object of more paramount importance than the wish or considera . tion for the improvement of mankind ? I am aware ... objects of envy . Yet , it must be confessed , that , to such authors , it is no small gratification to see the objects ...
... object of more paramount importance than the wish or considera . tion for the improvement of mankind ? I am aware ... objects of envy . Yet , it must be confessed , that , to such authors , it is no small gratification to see the objects ...
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... object of his visit a good deal of entertaining scandal and useful informa- tion about Elysium . He informed me that there was a new subdivision in that territory , called the Scribentes Campi , where every thing was poetical ; where ...
... object of his visit a good deal of entertaining scandal and useful informa- tion about Elysium . He informed me that there was a new subdivision in that territory , called the Scribentes Campi , where every thing was poetical ; where ...
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... object of disgust and ridicule at all . And that whereas the most marvellous stories are usually those of gentlemen continually engaged in field - sports , any person or persons alleging that he or they have indivi- dually killed more ...
... object of disgust and ridicule at all . And that whereas the most marvellous stories are usually those of gentlemen continually engaged in field - sports , any person or persons alleging that he or they have indivi- dually killed more ...
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Page 64 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Page 189 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 43 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented...
Page 146 - For Witherington needs must I wail As one in doleful dumps ; For when his legs were smitten off, He fought upon his stumps.
Page 189 - And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again!
Page 126 - t be possible — of blood : Beg Heaven to cleanse the leprosy of lust That rots thy soul ; acknowledge what thou art, A wretch, a worm, a nothing ; weep, sigh, pray Three times a day, and three times every night ; For seven days...
Page 125 - No, father; in your eyes I see the change Of pity and compassion; from your age, As from a sacred oracle, distils The life of counsel: tell me, holy man, What cure shall give me ease in these extremes ? Friar.
Page 188 - But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me: A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong!
Page 104 - Every quarter of the city was illuminated ; the great temple shone with such peculiar splendour, that the Spaniards could plainly see the people in motion, and the priests busy in hastening the preparations for the death of the prisoners.
Page 157 - tis but a sound ; a name of air ; A minute's storm ; or not so much : to tumble From bed to bed, be massacred alive By some physicians for a month or two, In hope of freedom from a fever's torments, Might stagger manhood ; here, the pain is past 1 [Half a page omitted.] * [Two lines omitted.] Ere sensibly 'tis felt.