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... containing a copy of English hexameters which Mr. Matthew Arnold in his lectures on the translation of Homer declared to be the best in existence . The same cannot quite be said of Eton's provosts . Sir Henry Savile , one of the most ...
... containing a copy of English hexameters which Mr. Matthew Arnold in his lectures on the translation of Homer declared to be the best in existence . The same cannot quite be said of Eton's provosts . Sir Henry Savile , one of the most ...
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... contain so great a shade . Spurning the hungry funeral flame , the mass of half - burnt bone , Leaps forth his soul in upward flight to Heaven's high - vaulted throne . For where the starry circles meet the murky air , midway Between ...
... contain so great a shade . Spurning the hungry funeral flame , the mass of half - burnt bone , Leaps forth his soul in upward flight to Heaven's high - vaulted throne . For where the starry circles meet the murky air , midway Between ...
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... contain ; and of these foreigners he may take such stipend and wages as he can get . How far successive school- masters availed themselves of this lucrative per- mission it is difficult to determine . For a long time the school remained ...
... contain ; and of these foreigners he may take such stipend and wages as he can get . How far successive school- masters availed themselves of this lucrative per- mission it is difficult to determine . For a long time the school remained ...
Page 84
... contain nothing more touching than the simplicity with which the head master replies that eggs indeed are not provided , but that ' a large machine for boiling eggs is brought in every day ; so that , if the boys bring their eggs , they ...
... contain nothing more touching than the simplicity with which the head master replies that eggs indeed are not provided , but that ' a large machine for boiling eggs is brought in every day ; so that , if the boys bring their eggs , they ...
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... contain in it a principle of permanent value , which became a staple idea of English education . Such then , in the main , was the machinery by which Arnold worked and ruled . But on the boys who came under him by far the greatest ...
... contain in it a principle of permanent value , which became a staple idea of English education . Such then , in the main , was the machinery by which Arnold worked and ruled . But on the boys who came under him by far the greatest ...
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