Author: R. D. Blackmore
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris: From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore" by R. D. Blackmore This famed and skillful English author is best remembered for his popular novel Lorna Doone, a sweeping romance and action-adventure tale. This short story returns to the world Blackmore created in that novel, depicting a tragic episode that unfolds in a majestic mountainous region of Wales.
George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris
Author: R. D. Blackmore
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris: From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore" by R. D. Blackmore This famed and skillful English author is best remembered for his popular novel Lorna Doone, a sweeping romance and action-adventure tale. This short story returns to the world Blackmore created in that novel, depicting a tragic episode that unfolds in a majestic mountainous region of Wales.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
"George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris: From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore" by R. D. Blackmore This famed and skillful English author is best remembered for his popular novel Lorna Doone, a sweeping romance and action-adventure tale. This short story returns to the world Blackmore created in that novel, depicting a tragic episode that unfolds in a majestic mountainous region of Wales.
George Bowring: A Tale of Cader Idris From Slain By The Doones
Author: Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465557059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
When I was a young man, and full of spirits, some forty years ago or more, I lost my best and truest friend in a very sad and mysterious way. The greater part of my life has been darkened by this heavy blow and loss, and the blame which I poured upon myself for my own share in the matter. George Bowring had been seven years with me at the fine old school of Shrewsbury, and trod on my heels from form to form so closely that, when I became at last the captain of the school, he was second to me. I was his elder by half a year, and “sapped” very hard, while he laboured little; so that it will be plain at a glance, although he never acknowledged it, that he was the better endowed of the two with natural ability. At that time we of Salop always expected to carry everything, so far as pure scholarship was concerned, at both the universities. But nowadays I am grieved to see that schools of quite a different stamp (such as Rugby and Harrow, and even Marlborough, and worse of all peddling Manchester) have been running our boys hard, and sometimes almost beating them. And how have they done it? Why, by purchasing masters of our prime rank and special style. George and myself were at one time likely, and pretty well relied upon, to keep up the fame of Sabrina’s crown, and hold our own at Oxford. But suddenly it so fell out that both of us were cut short of classics, and flung into this unclassic world. In the course of our last half year at school and when we were both taking final polish to stand for Balliol scholarships, which we were almost sure to win, as all the examiners were Shrewsbury men,—not that they would be partial to us, but because we knew all their questions,—within a week, both George and I were forced to leave the dear old school, the grand old town, the lovely Severn, and everything but one another.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465557059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
When I was a young man, and full of spirits, some forty years ago or more, I lost my best and truest friend in a very sad and mysterious way. The greater part of my life has been darkened by this heavy blow and loss, and the blame which I poured upon myself for my own share in the matter. George Bowring had been seven years with me at the fine old school of Shrewsbury, and trod on my heels from form to form so closely that, when I became at last the captain of the school, he was second to me. I was his elder by half a year, and “sapped” very hard, while he laboured little; so that it will be plain at a glance, although he never acknowledged it, that he was the better endowed of the two with natural ability. At that time we of Salop always expected to carry everything, so far as pure scholarship was concerned, at both the universities. But nowadays I am grieved to see that schools of quite a different stamp (such as Rugby and Harrow, and even Marlborough, and worse of all peddling Manchester) have been running our boys hard, and sometimes almost beating them. And how have they done it? Why, by purchasing masters of our prime rank and special style. George and myself were at one time likely, and pretty well relied upon, to keep up the fame of Sabrina’s crown, and hold our own at Oxford. But suddenly it so fell out that both of us were cut short of classics, and flung into this unclassic world. In the course of our last half year at school and when we were both taking final polish to stand for Balliol scholarships, which we were almost sure to win, as all the examiners were Shrewsbury men,—not that they would be partial to us, but because we knew all their questions,—within a week, both George and I were forced to leave the dear old school, the grand old town, the lovely Severn, and everything but one another.
Slain by the Doones
Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Tales from the Telling-House
Author: R. D. Blackmore
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tales from the Telling-House" by R. D. Blackmore. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tales from the Telling-House" by R. D. Blackmore. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Tales from the Telling-house
Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Notes and Queries
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Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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ISBN:
Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
"On a Sunshine Holyday"
Author: Edward Marston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
“The” Illustrated London News
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Supplement, 1953
Author: Isabel S. Monro
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
Publisher: H. W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
R. D. Blackmore
Author: Max Keith Sutton
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description