IN Mr. Lambs quot;orks,quot; publis eulogy on my old sc o o my oanding at Cs itude to ers, I trived to bring togetever can be said in praise of t most ingeniously.
[Footnote] quot;Recollections Of Cs alquot;
I remember L. at sc t ages, o see t as often as inction reasurer to temple can explain ea and rolls in a morning, er of a penny loaf -- our crug moistened tenuated small beer, in c casteless, and turday, coarse and c;extra-ordinary bread and butter,quot; from t-loaf of temple. t, some -- ( days in to e o make it go do cinnamon. In lieu of our e fresrong as caro equina), estable marigolds floating in to poison ty mutton crags on Fridays -- and rat grudging, portions of tten-roasted or rare, on tuesdays (ted our appetites, and disappointed our stomac equal proportion -- plate of roast veal, or tempting griskin (exotics unknoo our palates), cooked in ternal kitc t ! I remember tive (in one in a by-nook of ters disclosing tes o tise); and tending passions of L. at t, and ts bringing; sympatoo many to s; and, at top of all, , strongest of t, breaking doony fences of sroubling over-consciousness.
I s, and tances of to me in t city, after a little forced notice, ake of me on my first arrival in toired of my s. to to recur too often, t ter anot myself alone among six es.
O ty of separating a poor lad from ead! to o in tive to) come back, s crees, and faces! exclaim upon s Calne in iltshire!
to te race impressions left by tion of turn but ting memory of trange arrangement, urned out, for to go to, or none. I remember to tter, I t mucer-pastimes -- o trip under t on like young dace in treams; getting us appetites for noon, y morning crust long since exed) ttle, and t feed about us, and isfy our cravings -- ty of time, and ty, setting a keener edge upon t and languid, finally, urn, to, t ty had expired!
It er, to go pro treets objectless -- s cold -so extract a little amusement; or resort, in ttle novelty, to pay a fifty-times repeated visit (o too itle to admission. L.s governor (so ron o tion) lived in a manner under ernal roof. Any complaint tended to. tood at Cs, and ual screen to ty of masters, or yranny of tors. tes are -sickening to call to recollection. I of my bed, and er nig once, but niger nig, to receive t pleased my calloer o bed, to make t beds in tory, o commit, nor o yranny drove t of us from t ies, forbad ter, s.
ter days, ing some maturer offence in tter myself in fancying t t be ter of t name, . Kits, some feobin instrument of bringing o tty Nero actually branded a boy, arved forty of us, ing contributions, to to pamper a young ass, er (a young flame of rived to smuggle in, and keep upon tories. t on for better till t, not able to fare cry roast meat -- , foolis, and kicking, in te o t , bleoppling do concealment any longer at defiance. t ain attentions, to Smit I never understood t tron under any censure on tewardship of L.s admired Perry.
Under tration, can L. ten ty o carry aters, for tables, one out of t, ised in t magnificent apartment, ;by Verrio, and ot; is quot;; But t of sleek boys in pictures t time, I believe, little consolatory to ter part of our provisions carried ahe hall of Dido)
to feed our mind raiture.
L. o gags, or t of fress it doo some superstition. But tuous morsels are never grateful to young palates (c-ers) and in strong, coarse, boiled meats, unsalted, are detestable. A gag-eater in our time to a goul, and estation. -- suffered under tation.
---- `twas said
e strange flesh.
er dinner, carefully to gats left at able (not many, nor very cs, you may credit me) and, in an especial manner, table morsels, otle t stood at e t ely devoured t. c no traces of suc practices ed, t, on leave-days, o carry out of t be ture next o imagine . Some said to t about moping. None spake to ed; put out of too poo be beaten, but every mode of t negative punis, ill lengto get at t, and raced purpose, to enter a large building, suc specimens of in C out to various scales of pauperism aircase. After ly slunk in, and folloealts, and sa a poor , ainty. tim. toils. Accusation ribution most signal tle after my time), patient sagacity ermined to investigate tter, before o sentence. t ts, terious scraps, turned out to be ts of -- , an couple come to decay, -- tork, at to ted a present relief to ted eo --, I believe, be lost upon ory. -- I sc I all calculated to conciliate ile prejudices. I . I t do quite so well by he old folks.
I ters, upon t putting on t exactly fitted to assuage tural terrors of initiation. I ender years, barely turned of seven; and in dreams. I old for t offence. -- As a novice I er taken to see ttle, square, Bedlam cells, ra -- a mattress, I terituted -- , let in askance, from a prison-orifice at top, barely enougo read by. sig ter speak to o call to receive isement, separated erval from solitude: and up by s, out of to suffer ion incident to ime of life, mig o.* ty for t to see w became of degree?
[Footnote] * One or tances of lunacy, or attempted suicide, accordingly, at lengt of tence, and t torture to ts of o on atue.
t, ime deemed irreversible, o da fe, arrayed in uncout appalling attire -- all trace of e quot;c ; carefully effaced, , resembling ters formerly delig of titure ed. ited features, it s in Dante into te state-room), s o seo be seen for t time; of tioner beadle, clad in ate robe for t, because never but in tremities visible. tomed to officiate at tima Supplicia; not to mitigate (so at least ood it), but to enforce ttermost stripe. Old Bamber Gascoigne, and Peter Aubert, I remember, o prepare eries. ter tately. tor accompanied te round too faint tending to ting -- circumstances, to make accurate report ed. Report, of course, gave out tty and livid. After scourging, o, to commonly suces o o en of tation allotted to side of te.
tries played off so often as to spoil ty. e y of exercise and recreation after sc confess, t I as t of tants on ter; but tt portion of tment, of o be a member. e lived a life as careless as birds. e talked and did just ed us. e carried an accidence, or a grammar, for form; but, for any trouble it gave us, ting t, and anotting all t y of saying a lesson, but if you learned it, a brus enougo disturb a fly) rance. Field never used trut good ;like a dancer.quot; It looked in rument of auty; and an emblem, too, did not care to ruffle any great consideration upon time. often staid ao us -- e room to retire to, t time aid, to be out of t on. e being beo quot;insolent Greece or y Rome,quot; t passed current among us -- Peter ilkins -- tures of t. Robert Boyle -- tunate Blue Coat Boy -- and tivated a turn for mecific operations; making little sun-dials of paper; or -cradles; or making dry peas to dance upon tin pipe; or studying t military over t laudable game quot;Frenc; and a o pass aime -- mixing to have seen us.
Matto t class of modest divines o mix in equal proportion tleman, tian; but, I kno ingredient is generally found to ing dose in tion. ies, or ly bo some episcopal levee ion; and form seldom proceeded furtroductory fables of Po go on t guess. Boyer, erfering in a province not strictly been my suspicions, t altoget contrast ed to of s to ans. imes, o borroer, and to one of ; and fres; udents tering to, enjoined by te, our ease in our little Gostle into ts of did but to our lot. orms came near, but never toucrary to Gideons miracle, tter sc, age in temper. speak of someterror allaying titude; t idleness, and Elysian exemptions, and life itself a quot;playing ;
[Footnote] * Cowley.
tly removed from tion of Boyer, and a little of em. e occasionally es, and caugartarus. B. . yle to barbarism. er anty obliged o ts) ing as scrannel pipes. ily, but t must be at Flaccuss quibble about Rex -- or at tristis severitas in vultu, or inspicere in patinas, of terence -- ts, broaco move a Roman muscle. -- ic, but of differing omen. tokening a mild day. t, angry caxon, denoting frequent and bloody execution. oe to te expounded surer. -- J. B. ty fist at a poor trembling cernal milk s lips) ;Sirrao set your s at me? quot; -- Noto see ry into turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, quot;Ods my life, Sirra; (e adjuration) quot;I mind to racting impulse, fling back into er a cooling lapse of some minutes (during otally forgotten text) drive again, piecing out sense, as if it any ory yell -- quot;and I ILL, too.quot; -- In ler moods, o an ingenious met I o es, at time; a paragrapory at a and flouris calculated to impress tient ion for toric.
[Footnote] * In tipodes of or. , F. ing lemanly fancy in ttle dramatic effusion of umnus and Pomona, is not yet forgotten by t sort of literature. It ed by Garrick, but to give it tion. -- B. used to say of it, in a oo classical for representation
Once, and but once, ted rod o fall ineffectual from ing -- putting ters desk to a use for designed it, to justify simplicity averred, t kno te irrecognition of any laecedent to tory, struck so irresistibly upon t (t excepted) t remission was unavoidable.
L. to B.s great merits as an instructor. Coleridge, in erary life, elligible and ample encomium on try Spectator doubts not to compare teaciquity. Per dismiss ter tion of C. -- o bliss by little ctoms to reproacies.quot;
Under Grecian of my time Pepys Stevens, kindest of boys and men, since Co-grammar-master (and inseparable companion) -----e. an edifying spectacle did t to ti-socialities of t treet a immediate sub-appearance of tors ligoilsome duties of t convenient to retire, t long in discovering t it suited o lay do is pleasant, as it is rare, to find t forty, een to turn over tia, or some tale of Antique Friends even to anticipate! Co-Grecian ed y various diplomatic functions at ts. tall, dark, saturnine youton folloa) a scleman in eens. ation of an excellent critic; and is autry Spectator) of a treatise on ticle, against So bear re as (I dare say) sufficiently justifies ty quite as primitive as t of Je be exactly fitted to impress tic diocesans itutions, and tered. t sc to M. (if not senior to ons, t spirited of tudious Grecian. -- ted M----- of t.
Finding some of Edwards race
Unheir annals by.
Come back into memory, like as t in t yet turned -- Samuel taylor Coleridge -- Logician, Metapers stand still, intranced ion (o intonations, teries of Jamblicinus (for even in t not pale at sucs), or reciting o ts of ty-boy ! -- Many ;-combats,quot; (to dally a far sloides, tack about, and take advantage of all and invention.quot;
Nor s tten, Allen, ill more cordial laug to make ters sion of some poignant jest of ticipation of some more material, and, peradventure, practical one, of tinct are t beautiful countenance, turer disarm ted toigress-like round, suddenly converted by terrible quot;bl--,quot; for a gentler greeting -- quot;bless t;
Next folloo be noemper, tter by too quick a sense of neglect -- ill capable of enduring ts poor Sizars are sometimes subject to in our seats of learning -- excer for te, and one on tile, s-natured; F----- dogged, faiticipative of insult, about him.
Fine, frank-ed Fr-- , t master of ford, -----, mildest of Missionaries -- and botill -- close talogue of Grecians in my time.