School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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Seite 78
... leader for good or evil ? -is he the protector or tyrant of all those little fags ? But the last milestone said ten miles more : if I laid here any longer I should be belated , and I was dead tired already . - Through green lanes , then ...
... leader for good or evil ? -is he the protector or tyrant of all those little fags ? But the last milestone said ten miles more : if I laid here any longer I should be belated , and I was dead tired already . - Through green lanes , then ...
Seite 89
... leaders of the school , he did all in his power to obtain an insight into the work- ing of the system of fagging which was prevalent there , as well as to discover the morale of the school itself . He did not make such particular ...
... leaders of the school , he did all in his power to obtain an insight into the work- ing of the system of fagging which was prevalent there , as well as to discover the morale of the school itself . He did not make such particular ...
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... leader and an influential member of the school , who reached so high a position in the school game . After cricket came foot - ball , ushered in by the first great match , called " the sixth against the school , " in which the forty leaders ...
... leader and an influential member of the school , who reached so high a position in the school game . After cricket came foot - ball , ushered in by the first great match , called " the sixth against the school , " in which the forty leaders ...
Seite 136
... leader answers , with a solitary emphatic , " Yes ! ' Once more perfect stillness . A single chosen champion of the Fifth steps forth between the two lines , and rushes at the quiescent ball . Shouts of Well kicked ! ' Catch it ! ' and ...
... leader answers , with a solitary emphatic , " Yes ! ' Once more perfect stillness . A single chosen champion of the Fifth steps forth between the two lines , and rushes at the quiescent ball . Shouts of Well kicked ! ' Catch it ! ' and ...
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... leaders considered too wet to make it compulsory to play it . Then came the announcement of the head of the house that private hare - and - hounds will commence at * I must acknowledge that for this account of a foot - ball match I am ...
... leaders considered too wet to make it compulsory to play it . Then came the announcement of the head of the house that private hare - and - hounds will commence at * I must acknowledge that for this account of a foot - ball match I am ...
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admirable amusing Author bedroom breakfast bullying called candle CHAPTER cheer cloth cricket crown 8vo CURRER BELL Demosthenes door duty elder boys Elm-house endeavour evil excitement feel fellows felt flogged friends GEORGE MELLY half half-year hall hand happy Harbean Harby head heard holidays honour influence Jane Eyre JULIA KAVANAGH last holidays leader learned leave lessons licking look manly masters miles mind monitorial system monitors moral morning never night o'clock Oswell passed perhaps playground post 8vo præpostor present private school public school punishment quiet recollections remember round rush schoolboy schoolfellows seemed side Sixth form sleep sofa soon spirit Stones of Venice sure teasing thing thought tion took tyranny Virgil Volume W. M. THACKERAY walk week Weston whole school window
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Seite 86 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
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 309 - We conceive it to be impossible that any intelligent persons could listen to the lectures, however they might differ from the judgments asserted, and from the general propositions laid down, without an elevating influence and an aroused enthusiasm."— Spectator.
Seite 309 - This book is one which, perhaps, no other man could have written, and one for which the world ought to be and will be thankful. It is in the highest degree eloquent, acute, stimulating to thought, and fertile in suggestion. It...
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...