 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...carried me into old stories; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy;...in thumping and pummelling king Amulius's herdsmen, I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one, that one should have thought,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...carried me into old stories; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy; an expedition s1gainst bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect; but, thank my stars,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school,boy...in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one, that one should have thought,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 596 pages
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one, that one should have thought,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 264 pages
...carried me into old stories; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy:...beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, f or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove; not in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen.... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 918 pages
...much attention, and it is thought better to give these se\ernl Readings exaefly.— JWW Clelia." 7. " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...can remember things that are very near as pretty." 10. Coventry's Philemon and Hydaspes praised as "really a pretty thing." 18. The French quite weary... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen. I was sometimes troubled with a rough creature or two from the plough ; one that, one should have thought,... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy...beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum, f or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove ; not in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...carried me into old stories ; I write of them with pleasure, but shall talk of them with more to you. I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy:...The beginning of my Roman history was spent in the asylum,f or conversing in Egeria's hallowed grove ; not in thumping and pummelling King Amulius's herdsmen.... | |
 | James Pycroft - Cricket - 1854 - 324 pages
...as thrashing bargemen, was common at that time. For in Walpole's Letters, vol. ip 4., he says, — " I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy...remember things that are very near as pretty." The fourth Earl of Carlisle learnt cricket at Eton at the same time. The Earl writes to George Selwyn,... | |
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I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty. 
