 I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.  The Wits and Beaus of Society - Σελίδα 3των Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1890Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 422 σελίδες
...ut supra, vol. ip Ixi. '' Walpole's ' Reminiscences;' ' Letters,' ut supra, vol. i. pp. xciii. xciv. at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect,...stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty."1 He alludes probably to that reciprocity of literary tastes, and that intellectual appreciation... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 376 σελίδες
...constituted their chief source of enjoyment. "I cannot say," he writes to George Montagu in May, 1736, " I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy. An expedition against bargemen, or a match but one before the King began his last journey to Hanover. George I sa1led from England on the 3rd... | |
 | 1880 - 736 σελίδες
...Walpole found it there when he entered Eton in 1728, though precocious Harry thought very little of it. ' I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy,' he writes ; ' an expedition against bargemen or a match at cricket may be very pretty things to recollect,... | |
 | Belgravia - 1880 - 684 σελίδες
...Walpole found it there when he entered Eton in 1728, though precocious Harry thought very little of it. ' I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy,' he writes ; ' an expedition against bargemen or a match at cricket may be very pretty things to recollect,... | |
 | Robert Macgregor - 1881 - 226 σελίδες
...Walpole found it there when he entered Eton in 1728, though precocious Horry thought very little of it. " I can't say I am sorry I wa.s never quite a schoolboy," he writes ; " an expedition against bargemen or a match at cricket may be very pretty things to recollect,... | |
 | 1080 σελίδες
...Windsor Castle in no other view than the Capitoli immobile saxum. ... I can't say I am sorry I was never a schoolboy ; an expedition against bargemen, or a...grove ; not in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's headsmen." Eight years later, when he was twenty-seven — an age at which a man's disposition is tolerably... | |
 | Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Andrew Lang - 1888 - 476 σελίδες
...are statesmen— do you not remember them dirty boys playing at cricket?'3 In 1736 Walpole writes, 'I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy...recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things very near as pretty.'4 The bargee might have found an interview with Miss 1 ip 197. Letter xxi. * The... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 334 σελίδες
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...thumping and pummelling king Amulius's herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough, — one that one should have thought... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 364 σελίδες
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...thumping and pummelling king Amulius's herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one, that one should have thought,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1890 - 414 σελίδες
...than the Capitoli immobile saxum.' Further on he makes an admission which need scarcely surprise us. ' I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy:...thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen.' 1 The description seems to indicate a schoolboy of a rather refined and effeminate type, who would... | |
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