 L'Estrange, — and that was, perhaps, the reason why he was so much thought of. He had been by far the most brilliant boy of his time at Eton, — not only the boast of the cricket-ground, but the marvel of the schoolroom ; yet so full of whims and oddities,...  My Novel: Or, Varieties in English Life - Page 48by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1865 - 418 pages
...duties of a great proprietor, and when he came to the metropolis, it was rather to save than to spend ; so that he could afford to give his son a very ample...illustrious name and some forty or fifty thousand pounds a year. It was a vulgar fashion in that day to play the exclusive, and cut persons who wore bad neckcloths,... | |
 | 1875 - 1070 pages
...will undoubtedly be observed in his own mind, and he will perhaps come to say with Canning, ' I am no more ashamed of having been a Republican than of having been a boy.' But while he, and those like him, continue in their present green and immature mental condition,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1875 - 836 pages
...will •undoubtedly be observed in his own mind, and he will perhaps come to say with Canning, ' I am no more ashamed of having been a ^Republican than of having been a boy.' But while he, and those like him, continue in their present green and immature mental condition,... | |
 | John Vickers (author of The new Koran.) - 1878 - 258 pages
...will undoubtedly be observed in his own mind, and he will, perhaps, come to say with. Canning, " I am no more ashamed of having been a Republican than of having been a boy." But while he and those like him continue in their present immature and undeveloped mental condition,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1883 - 648 pages
...assailed in later life for his change of political faith, he made the apt and admirable reply, " I am no more ashamed of having been a republican than of having been eighteen." To call Southey a renegade is as justifiable as st would be to call the Apostle Paul an... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...afterwards became a high tory, and was for thirty years poet laureate. Southey always said, that he was on many a princely port, 65 Might well have ruled a royal cour a young man; and it may be said, in his defence, that many excellent men in England hailed, like himself,... | |
 | John George Hargreaves - Authors - 1889 - 374 pages
...endeavoured to cover it in some degree, wittily, though not very logically, by asserting that he was no more ashamed of having been a republican than of having been a boy. Like the Shepherd, however, he would gladly have sent the work to Satan, could he have suppressed... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892 - 448 pages
...duties of a great proprietor, and when he came to the metropolis, it was rather to save than to spend; so that he could afford to give his son a very ample...illustrious name and some forty or fifty thousand pounds a year. It was a vulgar fashion in that day to play the exclusive, and cut persons who wore bad neckcloths,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1895 - 864 pages
...even apologise, or tone down his opinions in an edition published twenty-three years afterwards. "I am no more ashamed of having been a Republican than of having been a boy," he wrote. And so, Aut Casar, out nullus. OSCAR WILDE. Mr. Swinburne is already the Poet Laureate... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1896 - 562 pages
...already attained to the sixth form at Eton), left school for one of the regiments of the Guards, i Few knew what to make of Harley L'Estrange, — and...illustrious name and some forty or fifty thousand pounds a year. It was a vulgar fashion in that day to play the exclusive, and cut persons who wore bad neckcloths,... | |
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