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who had published "Hints upon the Culinary Art"), imagined she possessed an hereditary claim to literary distinction. History wa

n Elizabeth and Lord Essex; then telling me, in a languid voice, as she sank back with the exertion, of the blessi

the clutches of my tyrant by a boy not much bigger than myself, but reckoned the best fighter, for his size, in the whole school. His name was Reginald Glanvill

e was eagerly sought after in the well winnowed soirees of the elect. Her wealth, great as it was, seemed the least prominent ingredient of her establishment. There was in it no uncalled for ostentation-no purse- prou

any of greater apparent consequence. Remember, my dear, that in all the friends you make at present, you look to the advantage you can derive fr

few prudential considerations were mingled with my friendship for Reginald Glanvi

se he loved, no one could be more open and warm; more watchful to gratify others, more indifferent to gratification for himself: an utter absence of all selfishness, and an eager and active benevolence were indeed the distinguishing traits of his character. I have seen him endure with a careless goodnature the most provoking affronts from boys much less than himself; but directly I, or any other

ne, who of all my early companions differed the most from myself; yet the one whom I

dium of a Latin version at the bottom of the page. I was thought exceedingly clever, for I had only been eight years acquiring all this fund of information, which, as one can never recal it in the world, you have every right to suppose that I had entirely forgotten before I was five and twenty. As I was never taught a syllable of English during this period; as when I once attempted to read Pope's poems, out of school hours, I was laughed at, and called "a

the end of that time (being of royal descent) I became entitled to an honorary degree. I suppose the term is in contradistinction to

ould reasonably have been expected. To say truth, the whole place reeked with vulgarity. The men drank beer by the gallon, and eat cheese by the hundred weight-wore jockey-cut coats, and talked slang-rode for wagers,

s been most exemplary; you have not walked wantonly over the college grassplats, nor set your dog at the proctor-nor driven tandems by day, nor broken lamps by night-nor entered the chapel in order to display your

to my teachers, profitably to myself, and beneficially to the world, is a narrow-m