School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... WHOLE HOLIDAY XXI . - THE SICK - ROOM . 227 235 245 263 272 XXII . THE PARTING BREAKFAST . 281 XXIII . - I LEAVE HARBY FOR EVER 294 XXIV . CONCLUSION . 303 ERRATA . Page 70. - Motto . For , quis talia fandum Temperat , " Read , " quis ...
... WHOLE HOLIDAY XXI . - THE SICK - ROOM . 227 235 245 263 272 XXII . THE PARTING BREAKFAST . 281 XXIII . - I LEAVE HARBY FOR EVER 294 XXIV . CONCLUSION . 303 ERRATA . Page 70. - Motto . For , quis talia fandum Temperat , " Read , " quis ...
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... whole range stood in the midst of a large field , having that curious pickled look which fields near the sea invariably possess ; and around the field , plantations raised their very stunted heads ; the shrubs and evergreens which com ...
... whole range stood in the midst of a large field , having that curious pickled look which fields near the sea invariably possess ; and around the field , plantations raised their very stunted heads ; the shrubs and evergreens which com ...
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... whole powers of the youthful mind should be brought to bear on Cæsar and his Commentaries in younger life , and Demosthenes and his Orations later on . However , this work does not profess to be an essay on education ; and the author ...
... whole powers of the youthful mind should be brought to bear on Cæsar and his Commentaries in younger life , and Demosthenes and his Orations later on . However , this work does not profess to be an essay on education ; and the author ...
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... 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 out with ELM - HOUSE . 25.
... 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 out with ELM - HOUSE . 25.
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... whole , An ubiquarian presence and control ; Elisha's eye , that when Gehazi strayed , Went with him , and saw all the game he played ? " COWPER . WHAT a title for a chapter on school life ! It takes one back to the days of the early ...
... whole , An ubiquarian presence and control ; Elisha's eye , that when Gehazi strayed , Went with him , and saw all the game he played ? " COWPER . WHAT a title for a chapter on school life ! It takes one back to the days of the early ...
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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...