. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. did the infuriated scribes extend their hands,and make a plunge to endeavor to save their beloved offspring, but in pitied the anguish of their disappointment, but with feelings of the samecommiseration as that which one feels for a malefactor on beholding hisdeath, being at the same time fully conscious how well he
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. did the infuriated scribes extend their hands,and make a plunge to endeavor to save their beloved offspring, but in pitied the anguish of their disappointment, but with feelings of the samecommiseration as that which one feels for a malefactor on beholding hisdeath, being at the same time fully conscious how well he has deserved it. One important inference may be drawn from this extract. It is thecheering fact that Shakespeare and Milton were not wholly unknown atEton ! We see from what the young man writes that the aspect of the cur-rent world has been reflected by some process into the inclosure, and thatthe Etonians were not unaware that English literature existed and thateven newspapers are a part of the apparatus of human intercourse. We arethus able to read between the lines of the inane linguistics of Eton to betterforms of culture than could be discovered in the mere logical examinationof the curriculum. The range of things to be imitated at Eton was narrow, and the sum. MAGDALEN COLLEGE. OXFGRD. 48 LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAiM E. GLADSTONE. of things taught was insignificant; but opportuntiy was there—as every-where. Gladstone produced one poem at this time of two hundred and fiftyverses which strongly reflects the passing culture of the school. His sub-ject is Richard Coeur de Lion, but the manner and matter might be re-garded as a boys effort to render Homer in the style of Pope. The rhym-ing couplets of the youth, however, are pervaded with the spirit of Dryden,rather than the Augustan finish of Popes method. The whole thing is inthe vein of King Cambyses, but is nevertheless fairly well done for a his eye on the Lion Heart, he says: Who foremost now the deadly spear
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