School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... hard task ; but to convince of their error those who would prevent others from coming to be taught , is the hardest task of all . My audience was soon over , and then , accom- panied by Mr. Wentworth , I was to make my first entrance ...
... hard task ; but to convince of their error those who would prevent others from coming to be taught , is the hardest task of all . My audience was soon over , and then , accom- panied by Mr. Wentworth , I was to make my first entrance ...
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... hard day's teaching , and all government was at an end . The fight accordingly began ; my small opponent and I were of course so utterly opposed to this trial of strength , that we fought with but small * energy , and our exertions were ...
... hard day's teaching , and all government was at an end . The fight accordingly began ; my small opponent and I were of course so utterly opposed to this trial of strength , that we fought with but small * energy , and our exertions were ...
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... hard sofa by the window to the concealed volume , and having first boxed Foster's ears with it till I thought the poor boy would have been stunned , he hurled it into the fireplace ; adding , that he knew there were one or two other ...
... hard sofa by the window to the concealed volume , and having first boxed Foster's ears with it till I thought the poor boy would have been stunned , he hurled it into the fireplace ; adding , that he knew there were one or two other ...
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... hard not to believe all that was hinted at , and shut his eyes to what was most glaringly wicked . He felt that if we , as a body , sanc- tioned such things , what was his small power to stay them ? —that a few punishments , more or ...
... hard not to believe all that was hinted at , and shut his eyes to what was most glaringly wicked . He felt that if we , as a body , sanc- tioned such things , what was his small power to stay them ? —that a few punishments , more or ...
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... hard run in the direction indicated , returning at supper time , in great anxiety of mind , to find us all drinking tea in the school - room , and the runaway eating the " Saxon toast , " as he facetiously called it . The barn on fire ...
... hard run in the direction indicated , returning at supper time , in great anxiety of mind , to find us all drinking tea in the school - room , and the runaway eating the " Saxon toast , " as he facetiously called it . The barn on fire ...
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amusing ball bedroom big boy breakfast bullying called candle CHAPTER cheer chef d'œuvre clean cricket dear Demosthenes door duty elder boys Elm-house endeavour evil eyes feel fellows felt flogged friends half half-year hall hand happy Harbean Harby head heard holidays honour influence knew last holidays Latin grammar leader learned leave lessons letter licking look masters miles mind minutes monitorial system monitors months moral morning never night o'clock Old Bailey Oswell passed perhaps play playground portmanteau præpostor private school public school punishment quiet recollections remember rience round rule rush Saxon schoolboy schoolfellows seemed sick-room side Sixth form sleep sofa soon spirit sure tallow teasing thing thought tion took tyranny ushers Virgil walk week Weston whole school window
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Seite 88 - 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 293 - 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 56 - 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...
Seite 152 - 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 294 - The stronger features of the soul to paint, And make distinct the latent and the faint ; Man as he is, to place in all men's view, Yet none with rancour, none with scorn pursue : Nor be it ever of my portraits told — " Here the strong lines of malice we behold." — THIS let me hope, that when in public view I bring my pictures, men may feel them true ;
Seite 215 - But Och ! mankind are unco weak, An' little to be trusted ; If self the wavering balance shake, It's rarely right adjusted ! Yet they wha fa...
Seite 137 - ... re-echoes from three hundred lungs; and every member of either side is thronging to the conflict. Then comes the tug of war. The hapless and too adventurous hero who first grasped the ball, and he who first dared to stay his course by a rough embrace, both roll on the ground, locked in each others arms, the foundation of a pyramid of human flesh giving vent to screams, yells, and groans unutterable. But no soldier ever grasped his colours more strenuously on the field of battle, than does this...
Seite 133 - ... Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? How tasteless, then, whatever can be given ! Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health. In proof of this, Behold the wretch who slugs his life away, Soon swallowed in disease's sad abyss ; While he whom toil has braced, or manly play, Has light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day.
Seite 242 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves...
Seite 70 - When first, a little one, I left my home, I can remember the first grief I felt, And the first painful smile that clothed my front With feelings not its own : sadly at night I sat me down beside a stranger's hearth, And, when the lingering hour of rest was come, First wet with tears my pillow.