William of Wykeham and His Colleges
by MacKenzie Edward Charles Walcott (9781150416835)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: D. Nutt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The brave old man is gone With his armour on he fell; Nor a groan, nor a sigh was drawn, When his spirit fled to tell; For mortal sufferings keen and long Had no power his heart to quell. The good old man is gone He is gone to his saintly rest, Where no sorrow can be known, And no trouble can molest, For his crown of life is won, And the dead in the Lord are blest. Doane. THE CHRONICLE or ST. MARY WINTON COLLEGE AND COMMONERS, HEAR WINCHESTER. chapter{Section 4 i ' ST. MARY WINTON COLLEGE, As be returned from Winchester College. Sir H. Wotton said tu a friend, " My now being in tbat school, and seeing that very place where I sat when 1 was a boy, occasioned uie to remember those very thoughts of my youth which then possessed me: sweet thoughts, indeed, that promised my growing years numerous pleasures without mixture of cores; and those to be enjoyed when time, which I therefore thought slowpaced, luid changed my youth into manhood. I suw there a suceession of boys using the same recreations, aud questionless possessed with Ihe same thoughts that then possessed mo. Thus one generation succeeds another, both in their lives, recreations, hopes, fears, mid death." -- Ixaak Walton, In war, in theology, in science, the fourteenth was a century of conflict. It was the theatre whereon Robert Bruce and William Tell played their high parts at Kuznach and Bannockburn; the days of the Edwards, Du Guesclin, and the Black Prince. Wars had lasted through weary years, and the hard-fought fields of France been strewn with the flower of the soldiers of England....

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