 One after one the lords of time advance, — Here Stanley meets, — how Stanley scorns, the glance ! The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, — the Rupert of Debate ! Nor gout, nor toil, his freshness can destroy, And Time still...  Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes - Sida 3581890Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 sidor
...brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, raeh — the Rnpert of Debate. Nor gout nor toil hie freshness can destroy, And time still leaves all Eton...boy. First in the class, and keenest in the ring, He saра like Gladstone, and he fights like Spring. Ev'n at the feast his plnck pervades the board, Ала... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 280 sidor
...parliamentary defence resembled an instinct. The prominent features of his oratory are very happily described in ' The New Timon' — • The brilliant chief, irregularly...destroy, And time still leaves all Eton in the boy. Yet who not listens with delighted smile To the pure Saxon of that silver style.' ' His charge is irresistible,'... | |
 | Percy Melville Thornton - 1882 - 510 sidor
...trust for the Great Giver of all. Lord Lytton speaks of Lord Derby, in the New Timon, as follows : — The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty,...destroy, And time still leaves all Eton in the boy. Yet who not listens, with delighted smile To the pure Saxon of that silvery style ; In the clear style,... | |
 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1883 - 754 sidor
...forgotten the ringing lines in which, in 1846, in the same poem, he had referred to Lord Stanley ' "The brilliant chief irregularly great, Frank, haughty,...He saps like Gladstone, and he fights like Spring." Spring was, of course, the famous "Tom Spring," a well-known champion light-weight boxer, of gentlemanly... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 766 sidor
...forgotten the ringing lines in which, in 1846, in the same poem, he had referred to Lord Stanley ' "The brilliant chief irregularly great, Frank, haughty,...still leaves all Eton in the boy. First in the class, aud keenest in the ring, He saps like Gladstone, and he fights like Spring." Spring was, of course,... | |
 | 1883 - 666 sidor
...sage :— "The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash — the Rupert of Debate 1 Nor gout, nor toil, his freshness can destroy. And...leaves all Eton in the boy. First in the class, and fiercest in tbe ring. I i says like Gladstone, and fights like Spring. Even at feast bis pluck pervades... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 786 sidor
...Frank, haughty, rash— the Rupert of debate. Nor gout nor toil his freshness can destroy, And timo still leaves all Eton in the boy. First in the class,...and keenest in the ring, He saps like Gladstone, and ho fights like Spring." Spring was, of course, the famous "Tom Spring," a well-known champion light-weight... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1883 - 442 sidor
...Stanley scorns, the glance, The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, — the Kupert of Debate ; Nor gout, nor toil, his freshness can destroy, And Time still leaves all Eton in the boy ; * Written years before the fatal accident whiuh terminated an illustrious life. First in the class,... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - 1886 - 334 sidor
...of boyhood. The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, the Rupert of Debate ; Xor gout, nor toil, his freshness can destroy, And Time still leaves all Eton in the boy. X. BERNAL OS BORNE.* MORE than ten years have passed since the late Mr. Bernal Osborne retired from... | |
 | 1886 - 856 sidor
...boyhood. The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash, the Rupert of debate ; Nor pout, nor toil, his freshness can destroy, And Time still leaves all Eton in the boy. THS ESCOTT. From The Argosy. VALENTINA. IT was a sleepy little village; an offshoot of the bigger village... | |
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