School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... alliance with France an absurdity ; and in those days a coach - and - four was the only way by which to reach the famous watering - place of Weston , where I was to be " inducted " into the I GO TO SCHOOL . 9 -I GO TO SCHOOL.
... alliance with France an absurdity ; and in those days a coach - and - four was the only way by which to reach the famous watering - place of Weston , where I was to be " inducted " into the I GO TO SCHOOL . 9 -I GO TO SCHOOL.
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... Weston , and saw before me the sea , glowing like fire from the reflection of the gorgeous sunset in its calm surface . Finding a " glass coach , " as Pepys would have called the lumbering vehicle , I stepped into it , with my ...
... Weston , and saw before me the sea , glowing like fire from the reflection of the gorgeous sunset in its calm surface . Finding a " glass coach , " as Pepys would have called the lumbering vehicle , I stepped into it , with my ...
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... Weston was that it must be a very well lighted town at night , so rapidly did the lamp - posts succeed one another . " That's Elm - house ! " said the flyman . With that insight into human nature which is peculiar to drivers generally ...
... Weston was that it must be a very well lighted town at night , so rapidly did the lamp - posts succeed one another . " That's Elm - house ! " said the flyman . With that insight into human nature which is peculiar to drivers generally ...
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... Weston . The first day I came , I was sent into the town with fourpence - halfpenny to purchase three ounces of pigeons ' milk , and two pounds of strap oil . Now , innocent as I was , I at all events did know that pigeons ' offspring ...
... Weston . The first day I came , I was sent into the town with fourpence - halfpenny to purchase three ounces of pigeons ' milk , and two pounds of strap oil . Now , innocent as I was , I at all events did know that pigeons ' offspring ...
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... cane hurt more than three thousand pinches , or four hundred kicks ? about which number I received while at Weston . Is flogging more degrading than witnessing scenes far too gross and revolting to be even hinted at 32 SCHOOL EXPERIENCES .
... cane hurt more than three thousand pinches , or four hundred kicks ? about which number I received while at Weston . Is flogging more degrading than witnessing scenes far too gross and revolting to be even hinted at 32 SCHOOL EXPERIENCES .
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Seite 285 - Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Seite 54 - Though thy slumber may be deep Yet thy spirit shall not sleep; There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish...
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Seite 148 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Seite 311 - ... To those who attended the lectures, the book will be a pleasant reminiscence, to others an exciting novelty. The style — clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly ; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness , the morality tempered but never weakened by experience and sympathy ; the felicitous phrases, the striking anecdotes, the passages of wise, practical reflection ; all these lose much...