 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ. Christopher Inn, Eton. THE Christopher. Lord ! how great I used think any body just landed at the Christopher! But here are no boys for me to send for—here I am like Noah just returned into his old world again, with all sorts of queer feels about... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 532 pages
...Christopher ; Lord ! how great I used to think anybody just arrived at the Christopher ! But there are no boys for me to send for here I am, like Noah,...afraid of my playfellows — and am ready to shirk Ashton — and can't help making fun of myself — and envy a dame over the way, that has just locked... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...present, far on the barbaric side of Barnes-pool. « TO GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ. "CHRISTOPHER INN, ETON. send for here I am, like Noah, just returned into...cracked sound. I recollect so much, and remember so little—and want to play about—and am so afraid of my playfellows—and am ready to shirk Ashton—and... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1852 - 532 pages
...Stall" and " Salt," that completely changes the meaning of their plebeian synonymes " shop" and " ahns" into something not only unobjectionable, but highly...me. By the way, the clock strikes the old cracked sound—I recollect so much and remember so little, and want to play about, and am so afraid of my... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 576 pages
...GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ. Christopher Inn, Eton. THE Christopher.' Lord ! how great I used to think anybody just landed at the Christopher ! But here are no boys...afraid of my playfellows — and am ready to shirk Ashton — and can't help making fun of myself — and envy a dame over the way, that has just locked... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 580 pages
...Christopher.1 Lord ! how great I used to think anybody just landed at the Christopher ! But here arc no boys for me to send for — here I am, like Noah,...afraid of my playfellows — and am ready to shirk Ashton — and can't help making fun of myself — and envy a dame over the way, that has just locked... | |
 | Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte - 1875 - 620 pages
...Montagu : — " Christopher Inn, Eton. "The Christopher — Lord ! how great I used to think anybody just landed at the Christopher! But here are no boys...little, and want to play about, and am so afraid of my play fellows, and am ready to shirk Ashton, and can't help making fun of myself, and envy a dame over... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 392 pages
...— Walpole writes to George Montagu : " The Christopher ! Lord ! how great I used to think anybody just landed at the Christopher ! But here are no boys...world again, with all sorts of queer feels about me. By-the-way, the clock strikes the old cracked sound. I recollect so much, and remember so little —... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 470 pages
...of his Letters (i. 1 5), distinguishes the two words, on his revisiting his old school, Eton : — ' By the way, the clock strikes the old cracked sound...— I recollect so much, and remember so little.' * He made the same boast at St. Andrews. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 19. He was, I believe, speaking... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...one of his Letters (i. 15), distinguishes the two words, on his revisiting his old school, Eton :—' By the way, the clock strikes the old cracked sound —I recollect so much, and remember so little.' * He made the same boast at St. Andrews. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 19. He was, I believe, speaking... | |
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Lord ! how great I used to think anybody just landed at the Christopher ! But here are no boys for me to send for — here I am, like Noah, just returned into his old world again, with all sorts of queer feels about me. By the way, the clock strikes the... 
