School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... seen more , knows more , and has thought more , that he finds home less to him than it was a few months back ? Can he see its faults more clearly , and has he less appre- ciation for its beauties ? Is it that he is greater in his own ...
... seen more , knows more , and has thought more , that he finds home less to him than it was a few months back ? Can he see its faults more clearly , and has he less appre- ciation for its beauties ? Is it that he is greater in his own ...
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... 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 out with ELM - HOUSE . 25.
... 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 out with ELM - HOUSE . 25.
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... seen his knuckles rapped with a slate , which he was endeavouring to take away from a pupil , when his commands had been disregarded or his observa- tions ridiculed . Every practical joke was played upon him which ingenuity could devise ...
... seen his knuckles rapped with a slate , which he was endeavouring to take away from a pupil , when his commands had been disregarded or his observa- tions ridiculed . Every practical joke was played upon him which ingenuity could devise ...
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... seen , and hardly deserving the name of that peculiarly English refection . When breakfast was over , we assembled again at lessons ; and no one ever thought of cros- sing the room to or from his place without pinching or pulling ...
... seen , and hardly deserving the name of that peculiarly English refection . When breakfast was over , we assembled again at lessons ; and no one ever thought of cros- sing the room to or from his place without pinching or pulling ...
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... seen boys sixteen years of age and older , devoting themselves to the solitary practice of it for an hour together , yet at last failing in the final exploit of kicking up the oyster - shell into their mouths at the last semi- circle ...
... seen boys sixteen years of age and older , devoting themselves to the solitary practice of it for an hour together , yet at last failing in the final exploit of kicking up the oyster - shell into their mouths at the last semi- circle ...
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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...