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... never deny it.—But will ye tell me now, Earnscliff, you that have been at college, and the high-school of Edinburgh, and got a’ sort o’ lair where it... ...s. It corresponds with what I was informed of her schemes. Go, Dixon, call Ratcliffe here Let him come without a minute’s delay.” The person he had na... ...he room. “I say, Dixon,” continued Mr. V ere, in an altered tone, “let Mr. Ratcliffe know, I beg the favour of his company on par- ticular business.—A... ...l ex- tremity.” “What has happened, Mr. Vere, to discompose you?” said Mr, Ratcliffe, gravely; and while the Laird of Ellieslaw de- tails to him, with... ...on of his embarrassed circumstances was confirmed, by the residence of Mr. Ratcliffe at Ellieslaw Castle, who, by the tacit consent, though obviously ... ...nd unaccount- able influence in the management of his private affairs. Mr. Ratcliffe was a grave, steady, reserved man, in an ad- 97 vanced period of... ...d like well to have a thrust with him on the green turf. I was reckoned at college nearly his equal with the foils, and I should like to try him at sh... ...have re- course to the violent expedients of the Romans which I read of at College. It would be hard upon my pretty cousin to be run away with twice i...

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...eems, was proved by the report of Dr. Walter Bayly, sometime fellow of New College, then living in Oxford, and professor of physic in that university;... ... so we bid you heartily farewell, being your loving kins- man to command, “Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex.” “Send up the messenger instantly, Will Badger,”... ...ng in his person the representation of the Fitz-Walters, as well as of the Ratcliffes; while the scutcheon of Leicester was stained by the degradation... ...rve her, with more ability to do so than hath been assigned to poor Thomas Ratcliffe.” He then folded his hands, and seemed for a second or two absorb... ...their array be so splendid as to put down, not only the rude companions of Ratcliffe, but the retainers of every other nobleman and courtier. Let them... ...e as ready to make good my words as that of any man who ever wrote himself Ratcliffe.” “My lords,” said the Queen, “these are no terms for this presen...

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... solve it. At length, in 1812, Mr. Williams made his début on the stage of Ratcliffe High- way, and executed those unparalleled murders which have pro... ... reign which was notoriously favorable to the arts generally. She lived in College Green, with a single maid-servant, neither of them having any prete... ...s the great exterminating chef-d’oeuvre of Williams at Mr. Marr’s, No. 29, Ratcliffe Highway. That was the début of the artist; at least for anything ... ...wo thousand resident 3 in Oxford, and dis- persed through five-and-twenty colleges. In some of these the custom permitted the student to keep what ar... ...n Oxford, about 1804-5, there was a general move in the dinner hour. Those colleges who dined at three, of which there were still several, now dined a...

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...ffair. Yet, first of all, one word as to the local scene of the mur- ders. Ratcliffe Highway is a public thoroughfare in a most chaotic quarter of eas... ... and in ten minutes more, she found herself back at the door of No. 29, in Ratcliffe Highway. But by this time she felt satisfied that she must have b... ...e mighty murderer. He had but to say—my testimonials are dated from No. 29 Ratcliffe High- way, and the poor vanquished imagination sank powerless bef... ...at of a Mr. Williamson; and the house was situ- ated, if not absolutely in Ratcliffe Highway, at any rate im- mediately round the corner of some secon... ... beyond all doubt, was the dia- bolic man, clothed in mystery, from No. 29 Ratcliffe High- way. Yes, that dreadful being, who for twelve days had em- ... ... republication of Walton’s Lives] edited by the present master of T rinity College, Cam- bridge, who is held in the highest esteem wherever he is know...

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...including the Abbé Southcot. This gentleman communicated Pope’s case to Dr Ratcliffe, who gave him some medical directions; by following which, the po... ... Tickell long and intimately, and had never heard of him having written at college, as was averred, this translation. It is now, however, we believe, ... ...e Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One As Christ-church once all colleges beside. After VER. 316, in the MS.— Even while it seems unequal to...

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...e of business. He has been brought up as a gentleman; he has been at every college in Oxford 16 Reprinted Pieces and Cambridge; he can quote Latin in... ...ly fled, leav ing him shipwrecked at Cleefeeway, which we apprehend to be Ratcliffe Highway—but heavier losses than that. Long ago a family of childr... ... Parker, good night, for Williams is already waiting over in the region of Ratcliffe Highway, to show the houses where the sailors dance. I should lik... ...he sailors dance. I should like to know where Inspector Field was born. In Ratcliffe Highway, I would have answered with confidence, but for his being...

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...e niece of my Lord T reasurer’s, but she died ere coming to age. Then T om Ratcliffe’s wife would have him for her daughter, a mere babe. But for that... ...se in Westminster, where Antony Babington’s wife was with her mother, Lady Ratcliffe. It had been a match made by Lady Shrewsbury, and it was part of ... ...uld be 303 Charlotte M. Yonge a landless widow, whereas this Ratcliffe wife has a fair por- tion for her child.” “Then Dethick will be f... ...ton consented to Lady Shrewsbury’s new match with the well-endowed Eleanor Ratcliffe. If he could not have Cicely, he cared not whom he had. He had be... ...for his wife and her child, who he said would be well taken care of by the Ratcliffe family, and who, alas! had never won his heart. In fact he was re... ...side, consisting of a number of sets of separate chambers, like those of a college, opening on a quad- rangle in the centre, and with one side occupie...

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... helpmate, after a short pause, ‘than by the intro- duction, either of the college hornpipe, or the equally un- meaning and unfeeling remark of rump-t... ...d out of the window by the heels of his boots, for thirteen minutes by the college clock’ The Major might have appealed to his countenance in cor- rob... ...he were at that moment being overdone before the slow fire at the military college. Notwithstanding the palpitation of the heart which these allusions... ...Dickens vessel, which was called the Cautious Clara, and was lying hard by Ratcliffe. Arrived at the wharf off which this great commander’ s ship was ... ...’t leisure for it. We—we haven’t courage. They’re not taught at schools or colleges, and we don’ t know how to set about it. In short, we are so d - -...

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...nners of the island. It is not considered what class is mostly seen. Yet we should not be pleased if a Lascar foremast hand were to judge England by t... ... first. The Hula, as it may be viewed by the speedy globe-trotter in Honolulu, is surely the most dull of man’s inventions, and the spectator yawns un...

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... eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. The Heralds’ College found out a Crusading ancestor for V e- neering who bore a camel on... ...d rolled down by the Monument and by the T ower, and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe; down by where accumulated scum of humanity s...

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... On the same day that the Duke did these things in the T ower, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, the boldest and most undaunted of his men, went down to Pontefra... ..., it being February, was filled with people; and the priests of Gloucester College were looking complacently on from a window, and there was a great c... ...fering of these two good Protestant men was in the City ditch, near Baliol College. On coming to the dreadful spot, they kissed the stakes, and then e... ...ssin, who confessed that he had been kept and trained for the purpose in a college of Jesuits. The Dutch, in this surprise and distress, offered to ma... ...ercised it in three others, being those of three dignitaries of University College, Oxford, who had become Papists, and whom he kept in their places a...

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... eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work. The Heralds’ College found out a Crusading ancestor for V e- neering who bore a camel on... ...d rolled down by the Monument and by the T ower, and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe; down by where accumulated scum of humanity s... ... said Pleasant. ‘ Any?’ ‘Complaints of that sort are sometimes made, about Ratcliffe and W apping and up that way . But who knows how many are true?’ ...

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... helpmate, after a short pause, ‘than by the intro- duction, either of the college hornpipe, or the equally un- meaning and unfeeling remark of rump-t... ...d out of the window by the heels of his boots, for thirteen minutes by the college clock’ The Major might have appealed to his countenance in cor- rob... ...he were at that moment being overdone before the slow fire at the military college. Notwithstanding the palpitation of the heart which these allusions... ...Dickens vessel, which was called the Cautious Clara, and was lying hard by Ratcliffe. Arrived at the wharf off which this great commander’ s ship was ...

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...n the iron bedstead, woke him. It proved to be my friend the under-jailer, Ratcliffe, but no longer holding any office in the prison. He sprang up, an... ...dly with our situation and purposes, not omitting our gloomy suspi- cions. Ratcliffe looked, with a pity that won my love, upon the poor wasted Agnes.... ...nd if he should chance to light upon the truth, he’ll be back in no time.’ Ratcliffe then removed an old fire-grate, at the back of which was an iron ... ...ould become unequal to the exertions which yet awaited her. At this moment Ratcliffe returned, and in- formed us that all was right; and that, from th... ...ons than the loose stones found about some new- made graves in the chapel. Ratcliffe and Pierpoint, both pow- erful men, applied themselves by turns t... ...trength, that some railway potentate, having taken a fancy for the ancient college of Glasgow, as a bauble to hang about his wife’s neck, (no accounti... ...hree (if not four) of the reverend gentlemen at that time attached to Eton College. Mathias, no very great scholar himself in this particular field, m...

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... Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give the girls another drink ‘f... ... Seven men from all the world, back to town again, Rollin’ down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Seven men from out of Hell. Ai... ... nearer forty than thirty, and I know the kind you are. Harrer an’ Trinity College! I ought to ha’ sent you to sea — But I stood you an education, an’... ...ith books and pictures, an’ china an’ etchin’s an’ fans, And your rooms at college was beastly — more like a whore’s than a man’s — Till you married t... ...t me, O mother, the only one! V erses 1889 to 1896 267 Harrer and Trinity College — me slavin’ early an’ late — An’ he thinks I’m dying crazy, and yo...