From that publication,
now very scarce, I have selected the following as the most amusing, and
relating to distinguished persons.
1 The great Earl of Chatham.
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD ETONIAN.
The Lords Littleton--father and son, formed two opposite characters in
their times. The former had a distinguished turn for pastoral poetry,
and wrote some things at Eton with all the enthusiasm of early years,
and yet with all the judgment of advanced life. The latter showed there,
in some traits of disposition, what was to be expected from him; but he
too loved the Muses, and cultivated them.
He there too displayed the strange contraries of being an ardent admirer
of the virtues of classic times, while he was cheating at chuck and
all-fours; and though he affected every species of irreligion, was, in
fact, afraid of his own shadow.
The whole North Family have, in succession, adorned this school with
their talents--which in the different branches were various, but all
of mark and vivacity. To the younger part, Dampier was the tutor; who,
having a little disagreement with Frank North on the hundred steps
coming down from the terrace, at Windsor, they adjusted it, by Frank
North's rolling his tutor very quickly down the whole of them. The tutor
has since risen to some eminence in the church.
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