The World at Westminster, Volumen1H. Bryer, 1816 |
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... The first whose fate I enquired after , was a boy who has the character of being a very great dunce , but at the same time a very great Muzz . - To my astonishment , my royal companion informed me , that he would become 7.
... The first whose fate I enquired after , was a boy who has the character of being a very great dunce , but at the same time a very great Muzz . - To my astonishment , my royal companion informed me , that he would become 7.
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Thomas Moore. my royal companion informed me , that he would become the most luminous Lawyer of his day . I next required to know the destiny of a friend of mine , who had got head into College , and is universally reckoned a very great ...
Thomas Moore. my royal companion informed me , that he would become the most luminous Lawyer of his day . I next required to know the destiny of a friend of mine , who had got head into College , and is universally reckoned a very great ...
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... companions seem to have regarded as a declaration of hostili- ties : ever since I have been distinguished by the cant appellation of a Muz , and as such their whole delight seems to consist in throwing impediments in my way ; such as ...
... companions seem to have regarded as a declaration of hostili- ties : ever since I have been distinguished by the cant appellation of a Muz , and as such their whole delight seems to consist in throwing impediments in my way ; such as ...
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... But to return to my subject ; for a long time Eumenes implicitly obeyed this advice : one day however , as he was passing by the Confectioner's , a companion , who had done him some little kindness , and laid him under 58.
... But to return to my subject ; for a long time Eumenes implicitly obeyed this advice : one day however , as he was passing by the Confectioner's , a companion , who had done him some little kindness , and laid him under 58.
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... is notorious for the delight he takes in giving pain to the feelings of his companions , told him he had overheard a conversation in which his character was made free with : -and again , when I represented to him the real state E 3 81.
... is notorious for the delight he takes in giving pain to the feelings of his companions , told him he had overheard a conversation in which his character was made free with : -and again , when I represented to him the real state E 3 81.
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abilities acquaintance acquirements admiration affected allow ambition amusement Badger-bait Blackfriars boast boy at Westminster cerebrum character circumstance College companions conduct consider contempt conversation correspondents CRITO DAVUS Dean's Yard disgust disposition duty Editor Eumenes father favour feelings following letter folly frequently FRIDAY friendship give good-natured greatest habits happy heard Honorius honour hope HORACE humble Servant humour imitation James's Park King's Scholars knowledge labours language laughed learning least look LUCRETIUS mankind manner means ment mentioned mind minster misfortune MONDAY nature never opinion opportunity Organon OVID paper persons pleasure praise present profess public school racters readers reckoned remind respect ridicule school-boy school-fellows seems shew sion society sort spect suppose talents taste thing THOMAS BROWN tions Town-boys truth turally vanity vices Virgil Volsci Westminster School wish words World at Westminster
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Página 9 - Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th...
Página 57 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease...
Página 77 - But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast and not from humanity.
Página 77 - THE HARE AND MANY FRIENDS. Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. The child, whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known a father's care. Tis thus in friendships; who depend On many, rarely find a friend. A hare, who in a civil way, Complied with everything, like Gay, Was known by all the bestial train Who haunt the wood, or graze the plain.
Página 5 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind, Nor lose for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Página 53 - Let those judge others who themselves excel / And censure freely who have written well.
Página 42 - I took up a newspaper to see what was going on in that part of the world...
Página 48 - Sic cerebrum tegit os : qualisque interna cerebrj est, Externo formam cernis in osse parem — Primo adeo intuitu qualis sit quisque videbis :, — Unum de multis sit satis.
Página 48 - J lie credit, frangit, tundit, lacerat, pessundat, Ferro, fuste, palam, clam, pede, dente, manu ; Porro ubi quid ficti a«t siraulati est; " hem, bone," mecum " Falle alios," inquam, " non ita fallor ego ; Ambrosiisimitare cumis strepituque Tonantem> Causidice?
Página 49 - Ccesare magnanimus mus, Si caput inspicias, ardua uterque petit : Bello fulminat ille, viamque affectat Olympo ; In cameram scandit mus, ubi graua jacent.