Butler Burke at Eton Author:Bracebridge Hemyng General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Original Publisher: John Maxwell and Company 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 wher... more »e you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Since Burke's return to Eton his tutor and his friends remarked that he was much steadier than he had formerly been. He was not so easily led away, and if he was susceptible of receiving impressions, they were more for good than for evil. His work was better done. He took more pains with everything. He worked conscientiously. For instance, in doing a copy of verses, he seldom, if ever, made a false quantity, or a false concord. If in doubt about a word, he invariably turned to his Gradus and looked it out, instead of putting it down and trusting to luck. In writing a theme, he selected the best Latin he could find, and tried to make his language Ciceronian. He was a great admirer of Cicero, and especially fond of that famous Roman's speech for Milo, and his orations against Catiline. He was not sufficiently master of Greek to read Demosthenes with any pleasure or satisfaction, but he had heard Purefoy speak of the Philippiqp in terms of thehighest praise, and he hoped some day to enjoy them in all the glory of the original. He bought Lord Brougham's translation, but he did not read it through. He was too young to ardently enter into anything which, to a schoolboy, is "dry" reading. Cricket, and foot-ball, and boating, have charms for the young idea, and deservedly possess the greater portion of a boy's admiration. If a boy goes through his school-work well, he can hardly be expected to sap out of school in a gratuitous way, except now and then in the long winter evenings, when he has nothing better to do. There were two boys, Borrer and Bowring...« less