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From: Annelle <da...@ea...> - 2009-09-04 14:16:13
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Getful?" And Brutus who replies: "Yes, Cassius, and from henceforth When you are over-earnest with your Brutus He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so." Dryden confessed it also in his praises of Anne Killigrew: "If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good. Thy father was transfused into thy blood." The winning of Waterloo upon the Eton playgrounds is very well; but there have been some other, and happily minor, fields that were not won--that were more or less lost. Where did this loss take place, if the gains were secured at football? This inquiry is not quite so cheerful as the other. But while the victories were once going forward in the playground, the defeats or disasters were once going forward in some other place, presumably. And this was surely the place that was not a playground, the place where the future wives of the football players were sitting still while their future husbands were playing football. This is the train of thought that followed the grey figure of a woman on a bicycle in Oxf |