Recollections of a Blue-coat; or, A view of Christ's hospital1829 |
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allowed amused ourselves anthem apothecary attention beadles believe Blue-coat School bread and butter breakfast called cerning certainly Cheapside Christ's Hospital church cloisters course dark arch daugh dinner dress Edward the Sixth especially establishment FATHER frequently friends gates good-humoured governors grammar grammar-master Grecians hall heard holidays hour indolence infirmary Irish stew kind labour Latin leather jacks leave left the school lessons liberty little boys Lord Mayor master mathematical school means ment monitors morning nerally never nurse occasion Old Bailey party play play-ground pleased punishment recollect remember round school at Hertford school in London school-fellows Selecta sent sermon side sometimes soon steward Sunday supped in public suppose SWAFFHAM talk tell thing thought tion told took Tower of London town upper boys upper gram upper grammar-school walking ward Whitsuntide writing-school young younger boys
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Página 201 - Tis grateful to reflect upon the care, Which screen'd the scions from the nipping air; To see that, spite of chilling frosts and snows, The plant still flourishes, the flower blows. So the philanthropist on this blest spot, With conscious joy surveys the orphan's lot. His bosom heaves with exquisite delight, To view the mind thus sav'd from serious blight, Beneath a genial clime its pow'rs unfold, By vice, by want unsullied, uncontroll'd: To mark the onward progress of its course Near and more near...
Página 200 - ... simply to deserve is to obtain. Fancy pursues him in his boyish sports, And strolls to all his holiday resorts: When summer sun-beams tremble in the wave, View him the river's depth courageous brave: Or, when hoar frost congeals the flowing tide, Swift o'er its icy bosom see him glide. But chief I love in fancy to repair, On Sabbath-ev'ning to the hall of pray'r. O ye within whose bosom warmly glows, A heart, that, pitying, throbs for human woes; A heart, that swells with grateful, joyful sense,...
Página 46 - Was he a very pompous and stately man ? FATHER. By no means. He was a short, stout, round little man, wearing a large white wig, a cocked or three-cornered hat, and having his short thick legs covered with worsted stockings, and his shoes adorned with great broad silver buckles. He was quite an old-fashioned man thirty years ago, and you may suppose that he appears to my recollection now as a very singular man indeed.
Página 199 - ... joins the sportive crowd. Then grateful, sorrowful, she bends her way, Cheer'd with hope's vision of a future day; Which gilds the ev'ning of her life with joy, When he whom now she leaves a helpless boy, Mature in years, and virtues shall arise To soothe the cares of age, and close her peaceful eyes. Now with a fairy step, pleas'd fancy strays O'er the sweet vision of my boyish days, And follows him thro...
Página 201 - To mark the onward progress of its course Near and more near to its eternal source. Let ancient Greece, with pride triumphant, claim The works of art and taste which bear her name; Busts that with living order seem to glow, Statues, thro' which life's streams appear to flow. Let Italy with zealous rapture trace Her pencil's powers, dignity and grace: England, thy Edward's works, which grace this dome, Eclipse the proudest arts of Greece and Rome. The best wrought statues Athens e'er produc'd, To...
Página 85 - GEO. Were you much in awe of the monitors ? FATHER. Very much ; especially the younger boys : for the steward was generally in the habit of paying great attention to the complaints that were made by the monitors, and it was not easy to escape, if they accused or charged us with any misdemeanors. GEO. But did the monitors ever make false accusations ? FATHER. Not altogether a false accusation perhaps, but they could, and sometimes did give rather a strong colouring, and the steward generally presumed...
Página 200 - No barrier crosses emulation's plain, But simply to deserve is to obtain. Fancy pursues him in his boyish sports, And strolls to all his holiday resorts: When summer sun-beams tremble in the wave, View him the river's depth courageous brave: Or, when hoar frost congeals the flowing tide, Swift o'er its icy bosom see him glide. But chief I love in fancy to repair, On Sabbath-ev'ning to the hall of pray'r. O ye within whose bosom warmly glows, A heart, that, pitying, throbs for human woes; A heart,...
Página 45 - What kind of a master had you in the upper grammar-school ? FATHER. A very disagreeable one indeed. To me indeed he was absolutely terrible. I was but nine years old when I was placed under his care. I was an unusually timid and nervous child. To the upper boys I looked with great respect and awe ; but as for the master himself I quite dreaded him.