The Harrow Life of Henry Montagu Butler
The Harrow Life of Henry Montagu Butler
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' Leaning on your elbow, sir. ' ' Yes, and in what play of what author would you find the words ? ' No answer. ' Plautus, I think, and in the "Miles Gloriosus, " shall we say the Swaggering Captain ? ' A less trenchant instance of such ' scoring ' is given me by Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. B. Heaton-Ellis. One day he asked a senior boy to repeat that part of Byron's ' Dying Gladiator ' which was suggested by a passage in the Sixth x 306 HARROW LIFE OF DR. BUTLER Iliad. The boy gabbled it off witho...ut a pause. At the conclusion Dr. Butler said, ' Very nice, but perhaps those beautiful lines might be better repeated thus ' ; and he spoke the passage with all the sonorous dignity of which he was such a master. And when he came to the lines ' He heard it, but he heeded not. His eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away/ he abruptly stopped and said to Heaton-Ellis, who was looking out of the window, ' Just like you, Heaton-Ellis. ' If Butler loved humour, he hated balderdash. Once the editors of the ' Tyro/ a school magazine, deputed one of their committee to ask him to accept the dedication of a bound volume of their numbers.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
' Leaning on your elbow, sir. ' ' Yes, and in what play of what author would you find the words ? ' No answer. ' Plautus, I think, and in the "Miles Gloriosus, " shall we say the Swaggering Captain ? ' A less trenchant instance of such ' scoring ' is given me by Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. B. Heaton-Ellis. One day he asked a senior boy to repeat that part of Byron's ' Dying Gladiator ' which was suggested by a passage in the Sixth x 306 HARROW LIFE OF DR. BUTLER Iliad. The boy gabbled it off witho...ut a pause. At the conclusion Dr. Butler said, ' Very nice, but perhaps those beautiful lines might be better repeated thus ' ; and he spoke the passage with all the sonorous dignity of which he was such a master. And when he came to the lines ' He heard it, but he heeded not. His eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away/ he abruptly stopped and said to Heaton-Ellis, who was looking out of the window, ' Just like you, Heaton-Ellis. ' If Butler loved humour, he hated balderdash. Once the editors of the ' Tyro/ a school magazine, deputed one of their committee to ask him to accept the dedication of a bound volume of their numbers.
What to read after The Harrow Life of Henry Montagu Butler?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Edward Graham to read onlineMoreLess
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