The Etonian, Volume 3

Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt

H. Colburn and Company and C. Knight., 1824

Inhoudsopgave

• THE KING OF CLUBS: 1
• On the Tomb of Psammis: 13
• Song to the Spring Breeze: 20
• Stanzas: 32
• Stanzas: 45
• Gog a Poem: 60
• Private Correspondence: 71
• Letter from the Rev Marmaduke Bradshaw to: 84
• The King Of CLUBS: 104
• The Country Curate: 112
• Michael Oakleys Objections to: 118
• To Intellectual Liberty: 130
• Further Extracts from a terrible long MS Poem: 146
• Fragments of an Address to the Spirit of Poetry: 159
• The KING OF CLUBS: 215
• Reflection on a Clerical Life: 235
• Nugæ Amatoria: 254
• The Hall of My Fathers: 272
• A Sisters Love: 278
• On Country Churchyard Epitaphs: 286
• Rhapsodies: 302
• H Townshends Poetry: 317
• a simple Tale: 325
• Maimoune a Poem: 331
• Private Correspondence: 366
• Contributors to the Etonian: 377

Populaire passages

Pagina 280 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die.

Pagina 263 - She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.

Pagina 238 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.

Pagina 285 - INFANT. ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed And bade it blossom there.

Pagina 30 - And above the firmament that n-ii.H over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

Pagina 30 - And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, \ saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

Pagina 239 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Pagina 272 - And should we thither roam, Its echoes, and its empty tread, Would sound like voices from the dead ! Or shall we cross yon mountains blue, Whose streams my kindred nation quaff'd!

Pagina 31 - By four cherubic shapes ; four faces each Had wondrous ; as with stars, their bodies all, And wings, were set with eyes; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...

Pagina 325 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.

Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: The Etonian, Volume 3; The Etonian, Winthrop Mackworth Praed
• Redacteurs: Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt
• Editie: 4, herdruk
• Uitgever: H. Colburn and Company and C. Knight., 1824
• Oorspronkelijk uit: de University of Michigan
• Gedigitaliseerd: 15 juni 2007