Poems, Odes, Prologues, and Epilogues Spoken on Public Occasions at Reading School |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 30 - These are the studies wherein our noble and our gentle youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way from twelve to one-and-twenty, unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon themselves living.
Pàgina i - When all these employments. are . well conquered, then will the choice histories, heroic poems, and Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument, with. all the famous political orations...
Pàgina 30 - ... unless they rely more upon their ancestors dead than upon themselves living. In which methodical course it is so supposed they must proceed by the steady pace of learning onward, as at convenient times, for memory's sake, to retire back into the middle ward, and sometimes into the rear of what they have been taught,1 until they have confirmed and solidly united the whole body of their perfected knowledge, like the last embattling of a Roman legion.
Pàgina i - When all these employments are well conquered, then will the choice histories, heroic poems, and Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument, with all the famous political orations, offer themselves ; which if they were not only read, but some of them got by memory, and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace, as might be taught, would endue them even with the spirit and vigour of Demosthenes or Cicero, Euripides or Sophocles.
Pàgina 128 - The victor's spoil, o'erwhelm'd beneath the tide ; And wild Arabia's desultory bands, The fight surveying from the neighbouring lands, With shouts of triumph hail the conquering host, And Albion's fame illumines Egypt's coast. Ah ! gallant heroes! in this glorious strife, Who...
Pàgina vi - The propriety of acting plays at school, however sanctioned by the practice of many ages, and of many venerable establishments, has been questioned by some writers. If their objections are founded on actual experience, the editor cannot but respect them. He would scarcely have wished to persist in a branch of instruction, which he has found to be the most laborious to the teacher in the whole circle of education, if he had been convinced of its evil tendency. He can only assert, after a long and...
Pàgina 127 - And War's loud clarion drowns the peaceful lyre, Our scene to-night from Shakspeare's hand displays A favourite tale of Albion's earlier days, When Douglas and when Percy, antient foes, 'Gainst England's Throne a dread alliance close. How different now ! the sister nations claim One common cause in George and Britain's name, And, jointly arming in their Monarch's right, " Are confident against the world
Pàgina 128 - ALBION'S Fame illumines EGYPT'S coast. Ah! gallant Heroes! in this glorious strife, Who purchased deathless Fame with transient life, No tear of weakness dims your virtuous pride, In HEAVEN and EUROPE'S cause who bravely died ! O'er the blue wave, that shrouds th...
Pàgina 128 - The victor's spoil, or whelm'd beneath the tide. And wild Arabia's desultory bands, The fight surveying from the neighbouring lands, With shouts of triumph hail the conquering host, And Albion's fame illumines Egypt's coast. " Ah, gallant heroes ! in this glorious strife, Who...
Pàgina 88 - The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, The President of St. John's, and The Warden of All Souls College; and left the interest of a sum of £24, for the expenses of their reception and entertainment. They visit the School every third year. It has been customary, besides occasional examinations in Classical learning, for the Scholars to recite Speeches, or to perform Plays, at the time...