School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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Seite 101
... licking for refusing to say what my name was , in the first place , and for inquiring the name of my persecutors , in the second . After that , I got a character for great impudence and " cockiness , ” and was generally kicked and ...
... licking for refusing to say what my name was , in the first place , and for inquiring the name of my persecutors , in the second . After that , I got a character for great impudence and " cockiness , ” and was generally kicked and ...
Seite 107
... lick- ing . During my first quarter at Harby , how- ever , I once saw a flogging ; it being the custom to send up two boys with the delinquent to witness his punishment : whether to strike terror into them , or to see fair play , I ...
... lick- ing . During my first quarter at Harby , how- ever , I once saw a flogging ; it being the custom to send up two boys with the delinquent to witness his punishment : whether to strike terror into them , or to see fair play , I ...
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... licking I ever received , I ought to mention him ; especially as he was an instance of misplaced authority , and of power abused for oppression . He was a tall boy , or rather a young man , six feet high ; for he was one of the oldest ...
... licking I ever received , I ought to mention him ; especially as he was an instance of misplaced authority , and of power abused for oppression . He was a tall boy , or rather a young man , six feet high ; for he was one of the oldest ...
Seite 186
... lick every member of the " stuck - up club , ” as he called us , before the end of the half - year . Considering our usual good character , and that we were too small to be bullies , too young to smoke , and too conscientious to be ...
... lick every member of the " stuck - up club , ” as he called us , before the end of the half - year . Considering our usual good character , and that we were too small to be bullies , too young to smoke , and too conscientious to be ...
Seite 187
... licking which was not strictly in accordance with rule and custom ; advising us to refer to the " house " as a body , in case the menace was really put into execution . Meanwhile the sporting spirit thus introduced had many admirers and ...
... licking which was not strictly in accordance with rule and custom ; advising us to refer to the " house " as a body , in case the menace was really put into execution . Meanwhile the sporting spirit thus introduced had many admirers and ...
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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...
Seite 310 - EXAMPLES OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF VENICE, SELECTED AND DRAWN TO MEASUREMENT FROM THE EDIFICES. In Parts of Folio Imperial size, each containing Five Plates, and a short Explanatory Text, price II.
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...