School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... position , and it was some relief when at last school broke up . About two dozen boys rushed towards me . " What's your name ? " asked one . " You sha'n't sleep in my room , " said another . " it's full already . " " He shall be my ...
... position , and it was some relief when at last school broke up . About two dozen boys rushed towards me . " What's your name ? " asked one . " You sha'n't sleep in my room , " said another . " it's full already . " " He shall be my ...
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... position of a big boy amongst us than that of a master , and his punishments were corporeal in the roughest sense of the word . He was a fine , strong man , one of those whose man- ners might be conjectured from the cut of his clothes ...
... position of a big boy amongst us than that of a master , and his punishments were corporeal in the roughest sense of the word . He was a fine , strong man , one of those whose man- ners might be conjectured from the cut of his clothes ...
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... position , from that first evening when he was made a laughing stock to the whole school , it was not long ere he was subjected to even greater indignity . I have seen him struggling with a boy who was kicking with his legs , striking ...
... position , from that first evening when he was made a laughing stock to the whole school , it was not long ere he was subjected to even greater indignity . I have seen him struggling with a boy who was kicking with his legs , striking ...
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... position for resenting it . Those long months passed away so slowly that one thought they would never come to an end , and so void of interest and liveliness , that , on looking back to them , no anecdote occurs to me , and no day seems ...
... position for resenting it . Those long months passed away so slowly that one thought they would never come to an end , and so void of interest and liveliness , that , on looking back to them , no anecdote occurs to me , and no day seems ...
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... position of big boys in private schools , they , perhaps , may say , “ What is this to us ? We were pure and virtuous , and were not bound to associate with fellows we did not like for the sake of others : besides , we might ourselves ...
... position of big boys in private schools , they , perhaps , may say , “ What is this to us ? We were pure and virtuous , and were not bound to associate with fellows we did not like for the sake of others : besides , we might ourselves ...
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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...