The Blue, Volume 2, Issue 1Christ's Hospital, 1874 - Private schools |
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Page 107 - MISERARDM est neque amori dare ludum neque dulci Mala vino lavere, aut exanimari metuentes Patruae verbera linguae. Tibi qualum Cythereae puer ales, tibi telas Operosaeque Minervae studium aufert, Neobule...
Page 26 - There came a burst of thunder sound — The boy — oh! where was he? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea!
Page 26 - Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair; And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair; And shouted but once more aloud, "My Father! must I stay?
Page 7 - Monday's milk porritch, blue and tasteless, and the pease soup of Saturday, coarse and choking, were enriched for him with a slice of ' extraordinary bread and butter', from the hot-loaf of the Temple.
Page 46 - And in his — night shirt — sleeve he chuckled, saying, " Write me as one that wants one without paying ! " The Grecian smote and vanished. The next night He came with hockey-stick, not over light, Holding the names of the heroic few Who paid a year's subscription to the Blue. Then, adding one, he showed the youth the list, And lo ! young Muggins' name led all the rest ! The Blue.
Page 46 - ... And answered, while a shoe at him he threw, ' The names of those who've paid up for the Blue ! ' ' And is mine one ? ' said Muggins. ' Nay, not so,' Replied the Grecian. Muggins whistled low, And in his — nightshirt — sleeve he chuckled, saying, ' Write me as one that wants one without paying ! ' The Grecian smote and vanished. The next night He came with hockey-stick, not over-light, Holding the names of the heroic few Who paid a year's subscription to the Blue. Then, adding one, he showed...
Page 150 - Calcutta's sun Has ruth for none, Consuming British livers in a week Or two. Yet exile here or there were sweet As still I gaze upon This cheering view The whole day through : The Middle Arch, the pump, a few square feet Of stone. It might have been my happy lot From Putney's bank to steer A four or pair, Devoid of care, Youth at the helm and at the prow a pot Of beer. But stern fate points to duties owed, Toils not yet overcome ; Demands Greek verse Or even worse, Judicial systems and the legal...
Page 98 - Upon one memorable occasion, at dinner time, instead of the customary insipid beverage, one of the butts was found to contain a fine old ale. The news soon spread from boy to boy, and from ward to ward ; and there was an extraordinary call upon the services of the jack-boys, whose utmost exertions were scarcely equal to the demand. As might be expected, these latter took care of themselves upon the occasion...
Page 97 - Grift,' — cream cheese ; but they never could appreciate this luxury. It was in vain that the good old matron, with a sister the very counterpart of herself, walked round the different tables, expatiating in glowing terms upon the merits of this ' beautiful cheese,' as she called it, and wondering how anyone could fail to have a liking for this luxurious gift.
Page 47 - ... him to the organ gallery, there to submit his musical abilities to a trial by the organist. The latter was an elderly gentleman, inclined at times to be rather irritable. The ordeal to which the boy had to submit was certainly not a very difficult one. It was to sing the first line of the ' Old Hundredth' — ' All people that on earth do dwell ' — accompanied by the treble part on the organ.