School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... soon became obvious to him that my place was literally " nowhere " in classics ; though it might have been somewhere rather high up in foreign languages or geography . This is pretty generally the state of things with home - educated ...
... soon became obvious to him that my place was literally " nowhere " in classics ; though it might have been somewhere rather high up in foreign languages or geography . This is pretty generally the state of things with home - educated ...
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... soon over , and then , accom- panied by Mr. Wentworth , I was to make first entrance into the school - room . my Had he been about to introduce me into the school as the head of it , instead of the bottom , it would hardly have ...
... soon over , and then , accom- panied by Mr. Wentworth , I was to make first entrance into the school - room . my Had he been about to introduce me into the school as the head of it , instead of the bottom , it would hardly have ...
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... soon I shall be like the rest . If my people lived as near as yours do , and not at the other side of India , I would run away . " Many of us try , and most of us succeed , in blotting out all such recollections in after life ; and the ...
... soon I shall be like the rest . If my people lived as near as yours do , and not at the other side of India , I would run away . " Many of us try , and most of us succeed , in blotting out all such recollections in after life ; and the ...
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... soon was forced to stop . I knew that at least two hours must elapse be- fore my flight would be discovered , and I did my best to put a good distance between my- self and Weston before the shades of night , now 70 SCHOOL EXPERIENCES ...
... soon was forced to stop . I knew that at least two hours must elapse be- fore my flight would be discovered , and I did my best to put a good distance between my- self and Weston before the shades of night , now 70 SCHOOL EXPERIENCES ...
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... soon reached an unknown country : the houses became unfami- liar , and the lanes looked strange to me ; I was passing beyond the outer limits of the school excursions , into districts where the very name of the little town of Weston was ...
... soon reached an unknown country : the houses became unfami- liar , and the lanes looked strange to me ; I was passing beyond the outer limits of the school excursions , into districts where the very name of the little town of Weston was ...
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amusing Audi alteram partem bedroom big boys bread breakfast bullying called candle CHAPTER clean cloth cricket crown 8vo Demosthenes door duty elder boys Elm-house evil feel fellows felt flogged friends GEORGE MELLY half half-year hall hall-lickings hand happy Harbean Harby hard head heard honour house-fagging influence Jane Eyre last holidays Latin grammar leaders learned leave lessons licking light look masters miles mind monitorial system monitors moral morning never night o'clock passed perhaps playground pleasant post 8vo præpostor public school punishment quiet recollections remember Rosborne round rule rush schoolboy schoolfellows seemed sick-room side Sixth form sofa soon spirit stolen novels sure thing thought tion toast took tyranny Virgil Volume W. M. THACKERAY walk week Weston whole holiday whole school young
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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...