Rambles Round Eton and HarrowChatto and Windus, 1898 - Počet stran: 290 |
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Abbey Abbot's Langley Admiral ancient appearance banks Barnet Beaconsfield beautiful beeches bell Bentley Bisham Bisham Abbey bridge building built buried Burnham called Canons Cashiobury celebrated century chancel chapel Charles charming church Cliveden Colne Cookham course Crown curious delightful Duke Earl Edgeware Edward Elizabeth England English Eton excellent favour fish formerly Greenford grounds Grove Harefield Harrow Hedsor Henry Henry VIII High Wycombe Hill Hillingdon Hughenden inscription interesting island John king King's Langley Lady land lanes lived London Lord Lysons Maidenhead manor mansion Marlow Middlesex miles Monken Hadley monuments MOOR PARK never Newdegate Oxhey parish Parliament perhaps picturesque pleasant Pope portrait present Queen reign residence Rickmansworth river road says scenes seat seems singular Slough Stanmore Stoke Pogis SWAKELEY HOUSE swan Taplow Taplow Court Thames tomb tower town trees trout Uxbridge vicar village walk Watford Windsor woods Wycombe Wycombe Abbey yeoman
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Strana 85 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Strana 147 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Strana 119 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be : In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Strana 174 - Lo, some are vellum, and the rest as good For all his lordship knows, but they are wood. For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to look ; These shelves admit not any modern book.
Strana 58 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Strana 86 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Strana 60 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Strana 58 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit : Too nice for a statesman ; too proud for a wit ; For a patriot too cool ; for a drudge disobedient ; And too fond of the rigid to pursue the expedient.
Strana 48 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Strana 199 - Here sin for want of food must starve, Where tempting objects are not seen ; And these strong walls do only serve To keep vice out, and keep me in : Malice of late's grown charitable sure, I'm not committed, but am kept secure. So he that struck at Jason's life,* Thinking t...