...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...grove ; not in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen.'1 The description seems to indicate a schoolboy of a rather refined and effeminate type,...

...end, for Horace Walpole on the 6th of Ma}' of that year, two years after he had left Eton, wrote : "An expedition against bargemen, or a match at Cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty." And again, in 1749, he says: "I could tell you of Lord Montford's making cricket-matches, oc o s b...

...the eighteenth century. Horace Walpole, in writing on May 6, 1736, of his sojourn at Eton, says :—' An expedition against barge-men or a match at cricket,...can remember things that are very near as pretty.' Thirteen years later (1749) the same writer observes, ' I could tell you of Lord Montford's making...

...an end, for Horace Walpole on the 6th of May of that year, two years after he had left Eton, wrote : "An expedition against bargemen, or a match at Cricket,...recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things fhat are very near as pretty." And again, in 1749, he says: "I could tell you of Lord Mont ford's making...

...6, 1736, of his sojourn at Eton, says : — ' An expedition against barge-men or a match at crichet, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but thank...can remember things that are very near as pretty.' Thirteen years later (1749) the same writer observes, 'I could tell you of Lord Montford's making cricket...

...their latter age." But in spite of these pleasures he felt that there was another world, and adds : " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...can remember things that are very near as pretty." Another time he writes to West from Siena of a Jesuits' College, where the boys "are disposed in long...

...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...in Egeria's hallowed grove, — not in thumping and pommeling King Amulius' herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plow,...

...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...can remember things that are very near as pretty." Another side-light is thrown by Walpole's friend and contemporary, Thomas Gray, in his famous poem...

...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...pretty things to recollect, but, thank my stars, I can George I. sailed from England on the 3d of June, 1727, and expired on the road to Hanover on the I...

...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:...in Egeria's hallowed grove, — not in thumping and pommeling King Amulius' herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plow,...