School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... were communicated to me , I had felt that something was in the wind , and had a sort of presentiment that I was to be some way disposed of . My lessons seemed of less impor- tance : a sort of " well - after - 2 SCHOOL EXPERIENCES .
... were communicated to me , I had felt that something was in the wind , and had a sort of presentiment that I was to be some way disposed of . My lessons seemed of less impor- tance : a sort of " well - after - 2 SCHOOL EXPERIENCES .
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... less , than during the first half - year at a large school . may be thought to speak too bitterly of that first entry into the world's discipline ; but I shall not say half what I feel . As I look back to it now , " distance lends no ...
... less , than during the first half - year at a large school . may be thought to speak too bitterly of that first entry into the world's discipline ; but I shall not say half what I feel . As I look back to it now , " distance lends no ...
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... 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 opinion , and feels hurt and annoyed that all do not agree in his own ...
... 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 opinion , and feels hurt and annoyed that all do not agree in his own ...
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... less false reply . Our master made but one step from his 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 ...
... less false reply . Our master made but one step from his 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 ...
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... 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 paid to say all he did , he was in the hands of those who , as heads of the school ...
... 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 paid to say all he did , he was in the hands of those who , as heads of the school ...
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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.