Cap and Gown Comedy: A Schoolmaster's StoriesA. & C. Black, 1893 - 342 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 14
Seite 23
... fancy everything unpleasant . There was nothing for it but to undress and go to bed , not without carefully examining it to be sure the boys had played no tricks ; I had heard of such things . I lay down with the most The Vice ...
... fancy everything unpleasant . There was nothing for it but to undress and go to bed , not without carefully examining it to be sure the boys had played no tricks ; I had heard of such things . I lay down with the most The Vice ...
Seite 32
... fancy this must have been built for a doctor's house , and that his surgery or waiting - room had been adapted to scholastic purposes . At the farther end was a lofty throne for the Principal , where , his head almost touching the ...
... fancy this must have been built for a doctor's house , and that his surgery or waiting - room had been adapted to scholastic purposes . At the farther end was a lofty throne for the Principal , where , his head almost touching the ...
Seite 34
... fancy , they may have spent the time in writing letters to themselves , like Mr Toots , or in drawing skeletons like Tommy Traddles . The rest of the school I found handed over to me ; and my superior , after making them bring up their ...
... fancy , they may have spent the time in writing letters to themselves , like Mr Toots , or in drawing skeletons like Tommy Traddles . The rest of the school I found handed over to me ; and my superior , after making them bring up their ...
Seite 70
... fancy herself ” as a musician , this did not prevent her from attending to business , and presently she stopped to give a broad hint aimed at me . " Is it not time the boys were going out for their promenade ? " " Ah , yes ! " assented ...
... fancy herself ” as a musician , this did not prevent her from attending to business , and presently she stopped to give a broad hint aimed at me . " Is it not time the boys were going out for their promenade ? " " Ah , yes ! " assented ...
Seite 83
... fancy showed me laying down at the railway station and asking the porter to ticket myself for London ; then Dr Spick's monotonous voice became the rattle and drone of the train carrying me away for ever from this dismal quackery of a ...
... fancy showed me laying down at the railway station and asking the porter to ticket myself for London ; then Dr Spick's monotonous voice became the rattle and drone of the train carrying me away for ever from this dismal quackery of a ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adams asked began boys Brighton brimstone and treacle Brooks Brummagem called Carthage country grammar course cricket discipline Ditcherly doctor door dormitory Dr Spick duty English master excuse eyes face fancy fault fear feel fellow felt Ferrier gave give going Gruyère half hand head heard heart hint honour hope hour humour keep knew lady Latin laugh learned less look Mardon Mary measles mind nature never night once pan-pipes pedagogues Pereira perhaps play poor Prefect present Principal punishment pupils quoth Rhadamanthus round scarlet fever scholastic school discipline schoolboys schoolmaster seemed showed silent Skinny soon sorry speak stood story sure taken tell things thought tion to-morrow Toby Toby's told tone took trouble trust turned uncle uncon urchins Vice-Principal voice Walker Warden wife word Worsley young young rascals youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 293 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Seite 194 - Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your...
Seite 296 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Seite 203 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 307 - Heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb.
Seite 264 - But all Etruria's noblest Felt their hearts sink to see On the earth the bloody corpses, In the path the dauntless Three : And, from the ghastly entrance Where those bold Romans stood, All shrank, like boys who unaware, Ranging the woods to start a hare, Come to the mouth of the dark lair Where, growling low, a fierce old bear Lies amidst bones and blood. Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind cried 'Forward!
Seite 315 - And lively cheer, of vigour born, The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly th
Seite 192 - When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it ; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones. In a...
Seite 229 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days...
Seite 281 - Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart.