... thoughts are generally best expressed in the correspondence with Sir John Taylor Coleridge, to whom the Nephew seems to have written with a kind of u... ...ev. John Coleridge, Master of Ottery St. Mary School, and the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was the youngest. The strong family affection that existe... ...es have nearly all, one by one, passed away,’ writes one of them, Sir John Taylor Coleridge. ‘He has left few, if any, literary monuments to record wh... ...t up; which is a good thing for me, as it will give me forty or fifty good marks in trials. I am so splitting with joy you cannot think, because now I... ... a fresh stage of life, from the little boy to the lad, and the period was marked by his Con- firmation on May 26, 1842. Here is his account both of i... ...s here that we may hereafter be united for ever in Heaven.’ This letter is marked twice over ‘Only for Papa,’ but the precaution was needless, for Lad... ...ollege: ‘He was by common consent one of the best, if not the best, of the cricketers of the school. The second year of his appearance at Lord’s Crick... ...is powers of defence were indeed remarkable. I saw the famous professional cricketer Lillywhite play once at Eton in his time, and becoming almost irr...

...ociety. Mr. Carey asked if Philip had behaved properly; and Mrs. Carey re- marked that Mrs. Wigram had a new mantle, Mr . Cox was not in church, and s... ...ce with eager questions. Singer faced them, his face red with the pain and marks of tears still on his cheeks. He pointed with his head at Philip, who... ...ned his class and looked at the paper on which Mr. Perkins had written the marks, a sur- 73 W. Somerset Maugham prise awaited him; for the two boys a... ...he unexpected question. “Cronshaw knows the averages of every first- class cricketer for the last twenty years,” said Lawson, smiling. The Frenchman l... ...’s Medicine, which had recently taken the place in the students’ favour of Taylor’s work, for many years the text-book most in use. Presently Mildred ...

...twopence to each lay clerk, sixpence to the sacrist for wax candles, and a mark or thirteen and fourpence to be spent in a “pittance” extra course in ... ... them off by giving them the impropriation of Merton and Hursleigh* for 53 marks a year. Paganus de Lyskeret, styled Presbyter, was collated in 1280. ... ...nesses to it. Vide Regist. de Pontissera, fol. 10. Forty shillings or five marks was, it ap- * Hurstleigh, as it was originally spelt, is derived from... ...se to the house of Mr. Keble’s life-long friend and biog- rapher, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, at Ottery St. Mary. An en- graving of Raffaelle’s last pi... ... Nor did his Hursley plans stand still. Under the manage- ment of Sir John Taylor Coleridge and other friends, the Christian Year had become much more... ...ts the green expanse for donkeys and children, including the more youthful cricketers, not yet pro- moted to matches. From the top of the hill extends...

...or slave had toiled, died perhaps, to produce yon pyramid of swarthy sugar marked “Only 6 1/2d.”—That catty box, on which was the epigraph “Strong Fam... ...s he of the treasures confided to him. The crowd passed in Chepe; he never marked it. The sun shone on Chepe; he only asked that it should illu- mine ... ...ood. Life is the Soul’s Nursery. I am a Man, and pine for the Illimitable! Mark you me! Has the Morrow any terrors for me, think ye? Did Socrates falt... ...appearants and linning (which was gen- erally a pink or blew shurt, with a cricketer or a dansuse pat- tern) rather a contrast to the dinjy and whistk... ...nners, will purchase my book, and carry it to their distant homes. So, Mr. Taylor, or Mr. Haberdasher, or Mr. Jeweller, how much will you stand if I r...

...head, hooked her long nose, and spent the next hour in amateur navigation. Market Stoneborough was a fine old town. The Minster, grand with the archit... ...een like a father to the little boy, showing judgment and self-denial that marked him of a high cast of character. He had distin- guished himself in e... ...afloat again. No place would 15 Yo n g e ever seem to him so like home as Market Stoneborough. He was quite like one of themselves, and took a full s... ...d cost eighteenpence to hire Joliffe’s spring-cart, and we might have Mrs. Taylor and the twins brought to church in it. Should you like to walk to Co... ...Ledwich, and, with a profusion of thanks, they took leave. They found John Taylor, just come out of the hospital, looking weak and ill, as he smoked h... ...ys thinks nobody can’t do nothing.” “To be sure,” said the lamentable Mrs. Taylor, “all the el- der ones was took to church, and I’m loath the little ... ...opularity, it was his duty to put a stop to the practice. He was an ardent cricketer himself, and though the game did not, in anticipation, seem to hi... ...us and distinguished, he had not avoided society or amusement, was a great cricketer and tennis-player, one of the “eight” whose success in the boat r...