School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... things - how scientifically you can criticize the pas de quatre , and how feelingly you can appreciate the " Rejected Addresses " -the spirit of envy rises strong within me . With that high superiority and noble generosity , then ...
... things - how scientifically you can criticize the pas de quatre , and how feelingly you can appreciate the " Rejected Addresses " -the spirit of envy rises strong within me . With that high superiority and noble generosity , then ...
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... thing to attend to ; and this I expected would constitute my first struggle in active life : but I was mistaken . My countenance must have expressed very deep misery and despondency , or the flyman must have been new to his soul ...
... thing to attend to ; and this I expected would constitute my first struggle in active life : but I was mistaken . My countenance must have expressed very deep misery and despondency , or the flyman must have been new to his soul ...
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... things with home - educated boys ; and certainly , as Greek and Latin are so invariably written , spoken , and read in after - life in this country , it is well that every- thing should be sacrificed to their acquisition , and that the ...
... things with home - educated boys ; and certainly , as Greek and Latin are so invariably written , spoken , and read in after - life in this country , it is well that every- thing should be sacrificed to their acquisition , and that the ...
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... thing is flying away . " His heart might be estimated from his deep , manly , joyous voice , and was equally large and noble . What a bully he was , to be sure ! How vigo- rously he fell upon any of our many perse- cutors , whom he ...
... thing is flying away . " His heart might be estimated from his deep , manly , joyous voice , and was equally large and noble . What a bully he was , to be sure ! How vigo- rously he fell upon any of our many perse- cutors , whom he ...
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... things , what was his small power to stay them ? —that a few punishments , more or less severe , would but induce more and more deceit and lying ; and that the remedy was not in his hands . Suspected at every moment , and supposed to be ...
... things , what was his small power to stay them ? —that a few punishments , more or less severe , would but induce more and more deceit and lying ; and that the remedy was not in his hands . Suspected at every moment , and supposed to be ...
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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...