Tom Brown at Oxford: A Sequel to School Days at Rugby, Part 2Tom Brown's experiences at Rugby and Oxford helped create an enduring image of British public-school education and popularize the doctrine of Christian ethics in sports or "muscular Christianity." |
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Page 422 - So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.
Page 533 - Cashpayment for the sole nexus,' and so forth, were not, are not, and will never be, a practicable Law of Union for a Society of Men. That Poor and Rich, that Governed and Governing, cannot long live together on any such Law of Union. Alas, he thinks that...
Page 617 - And, although it startled and pained him at first to hear himself called ugly names, which he had hated and despised from his youth up, and to know that many of his old acquaintance looked upon him, not simply as a madman, but as a madman with snobbish proclivities; yet, when the first plunge was over, there was a good deal on the other hand which tickled his vanity, and was far from being unpleasant. To do him justice, however, the disagreeables were such that, had there not been some genuine belief...
Page 600 - I can't abear to hear o' her talkin', let alone writin' to " Out with it To me, you were going to say." " Nay, 'tis mwore nor that." " All right, Harry, if you only lump me with the rest of mankind, I don't care. But you needn't be jealous of me, and you musn't be jealous of me, or I shan'tbe able to help you as I want to do.
Page 613 - Tom argued with him gentty, and turned the matter round on all sides, putting the most hopeful face upon it; and, in the end, talked first himself, and then Harry, into the belief that it was the very best thing that could have happened to him, and more likely than any other course of action to bring every thing right between him and all folk at Englebourn. So Harry got into the train at Steventon in pretty good heart, with his fare paid, and half-a-sovereign in his pocket, more and more impressed...
Page 539 - Well, one mornin', Sir, about last Lady-day, I comes quite quiet up stream about dawn. When I gets to Farmer Giles's piece (that little rough bit, Sir, as you sees t'other side the stream, two fields from our outside bounds), I sees un a stooping down and hauling in's line. ' Now's your time, Billy,' says I, and up the hedge I cuts hot-foot, to get betwixt he and our bounds.
Page 383 - ... explanatory remarks on the buildings as they passed along, Hardy managed to keep up a conversation with his companion without much difficulty. Miss Winter was pleased with his quiet deferential manner, and soon lost her feeling of shyness, and, before Hardy had come to the end of such remarks as it occurred to him to make, she was taking her fair share in the talk. In describing their day's doings she spoke with enthusiasm of the beauty of Magdalen Chapel, and betrayed a little knowledge of traceries...
Page 731 - I N. take thee N. to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death us do part, if Holy Church will it permit, and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Page 401 - At my expense? To top up with.? Es soll das letzte Glas sein; zum Magenschluss. torpid. Macm. Mag. Sept. 1860, p. 367. the torpids being filled with the refuse of the rowing-men, generally awkward or very young oarsmen, found some difficulty in the art of tossing; ib. Jan. 1860, p. 184, bei einer Ueberlegung, wie die Mannschaft für die boatraces auszuwählen ist: I suppose we must press somebody of the torpids, cf. ib. June 1860, p. 140: D. was bent on training some of the torpids for next year....