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How Alfred Tiptop Won The Prize Poem
at all injurious to the nerves of the housekeeper . The windows excluded air when shut , the smoke generally Avent up the chimneys , and the doors opened without carrying the carpet along with them . Altogether , it Avas a pretty , and unquestionably "desirable family residence , " on a small scale , and utterly unsuggestive of suicide , high-art criticism , or any other discomfort .
The Reverend Augustus Derwent , M . A ., F . R . S ., F . S . A ., & c ,
Avas one of those clergymen , who prefer being good to being great , in the world ' s sense of the term . He had written pamphlets , and yet he had never pamphleted his bishop ; he had been the adviser and mainstay of many a sound literary and religious undertaking , and yet he had never got abused in the newspapers for the sake of notoriety . His face was one in
which you believed before you asked a question ; his kindness Avas so great that you dreaded his severity ( if he exerted it ); and his knowledge so sound that he never set himself up as a clever man . He had had a large family of sons , manly , clever , and successful fellows , and he loA r ed them all . But , like they did , he loved one being a little moreand that being Avas Leila .
, Although a good working clergyman , the Rev . Augustus Derwent held but moderate preferment , and he took a few select pupils as a means of supporting the elegant and simple comfort , in which he had brought up his family . People do not always know how much is included in an educational course . It was left to Alfred Tiptop to ascertainand Ave will tell you how he
, succeeded . Alfred Tiptop was one of those young gentlemen , who are notorious nuisances and favourites at the same time . He was always causing somebody a deal of bodily fear and anxiety , and always doing some kind or dashing thing , which turned the scale in his favour . If his aunt felt annoyed at the
rat-murdering appearance of some of his dogs , the manner in which he " worked a break , " or took a fence , inspired a secret admiration , which even his irreverent contempt for China monsters and tea could not suppress . If he spent every farthing he could get hold of , his aunt had never heard of his being in any particular debt ; and if he avowed a preference for wind instruments OA'er stringed , he at all events never practised them when the family had gone to bed .
He was very industrious in the pursuit of pleasure , and yet he Avas a very fair scholar . Too much a gentlemen to love ignorance for its own sake , he had always kept up a respectable amount of study , but without doing anything really worthy the ability Avhich even his boyhood had manifested .
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How Alfred Tiptop Won The Prize Poem
at all injurious to the nerves of the housekeeper . The windows excluded air when shut , the smoke generally Avent up the chimneys , and the doors opened without carrying the carpet along with them . Altogether , it Avas a pretty , and unquestionably "desirable family residence , " on a small scale , and utterly unsuggestive of suicide , high-art criticism , or any other discomfort .
The Reverend Augustus Derwent , M . A ., F . R . S ., F . S . A ., & c ,
Avas one of those clergymen , who prefer being good to being great , in the world ' s sense of the term . He had written pamphlets , and yet he had never pamphleted his bishop ; he had been the adviser and mainstay of many a sound literary and religious undertaking , and yet he had never got abused in the newspapers for the sake of notoriety . His face was one in
which you believed before you asked a question ; his kindness Avas so great that you dreaded his severity ( if he exerted it ); and his knowledge so sound that he never set himself up as a clever man . He had had a large family of sons , manly , clever , and successful fellows , and he loA r ed them all . But , like they did , he loved one being a little moreand that being Avas Leila .
, Although a good working clergyman , the Rev . Augustus Derwent held but moderate preferment , and he took a few select pupils as a means of supporting the elegant and simple comfort , in which he had brought up his family . People do not always know how much is included in an educational course . It was left to Alfred Tiptop to ascertainand Ave will tell you how he
, succeeded . Alfred Tiptop was one of those young gentlemen , who are notorious nuisances and favourites at the same time . He was always causing somebody a deal of bodily fear and anxiety , and always doing some kind or dashing thing , which turned the scale in his favour . If his aunt felt annoyed at the
rat-murdering appearance of some of his dogs , the manner in which he " worked a break , " or took a fence , inspired a secret admiration , which even his irreverent contempt for China monsters and tea could not suppress . If he spent every farthing he could get hold of , his aunt had never heard of his being in any particular debt ; and if he avowed a preference for wind instruments OA'er stringed , he at all events never practised them when the family had gone to bed .
He was very industrious in the pursuit of pleasure , and yet he Avas a very fair scholar . Too much a gentlemen to love ignorance for its own sake , he had always kept up a respectable amount of study , but without doing anything really worthy the ability Avhich even his boyhood had manifested .