Bishops Fleetwood and Pearson, the
learned John Hales, Dr. Stanhope, Sir Robert Walpole, the
great Earl Camden, Outred the mathematician, Boyle the
philosopher, Waller the poet, the illustrious Earl of
Chatham, Lord Lyttelton, Gray the poet, and an endless list
of shining characters have owned Eton for their scholastic
nursery: not to mention the various existing literati who
have received their education at this celebrated college.
The local situation of Eton is romantic and pleasing; there
is a monastic gloom about the building, finely contrasting
with the beauty of the surrounding scenery, which
irresistibly enchains the eye and heart.
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FAREWELL TO ETON.
Horatio had just concluded the last sentence of the description of the
Eton Montem, when my aunt, who had now exceeded her usual retiring time
by at least half an hour, made a sudden start, upon hearing the chimes
of the old castle clock proclaim a notice of the midnight hour.
"Heavens! boy," said Lady Mary Oldstyle, "what rakes we are! I believe
we must abandon all intention of inviting your friend Bernard here;
for should his conversation prove half as entertaining as these
miscellaneous whims and scraps of his early years, we should, I fear,
often encroach upon the midnight lamp.
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