School Days at RugbyTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 405 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... round Ire- land with a return ticket , in a fortnight ; dropping your copies of Tennyson on the tops of Swiss mountains ; or pulling down the Danube in Oxford racing - boats . And when you get home for a quiet fortnight , you turn the ...
... round Ire- land with a return ticket , in a fortnight ; dropping your copies of Tennyson on the tops of Swiss mountains ; or pulling down the Danube in Oxford racing - boats . And when you get home for a quiet fortnight , you turn the ...
Pagina 15
... round . We had to cut out our own amusements within a walk or a ride of home . And so we got to know all the country folk , and their ways and songs and stories , by heart ; and went over the fields and woods and hills , again and again ...
... round . We had to cut out our own amusements within a walk or a ride of home . And so we got to know all the country folk , and their ways and songs and stories , by heart ; and went over the fields and woods and hills , again and again ...
Pagina 18
... round all the table - land , some twelve or fourteen acres , as was their custom , for they couldn't bear anybody to overlook them , and made their eyrie . The ground falls away rapidly on all sides . Was there ever such turf in the ...
... round all the table - land , some twelve or fourteen acres , as was their custom , for they couldn't bear anybody to overlook them , and made their eyrie . The ground falls away rapidly on all sides . Was there ever such turf in the ...
Pagina 20
... round self - confident fellow , thrown forward from the range , and utterly unlike every thing round him . On this hill , some deliverer of mankind , St. George , the country folk used to tell me , killed a dragon . Whether it were St ...
... round self - confident fellow , thrown forward from the range , and utterly unlike every thing round him . On this hill , some deliverer of mankind , St. George , the country folk used to tell me , killed a dragon . Whether it were St ...
Pagina 23
... round , leastways so I've heered lawyer Smith say , and he knows a smart sight about them old times . " We can scarcely swallow lawyer Smith's seven miles , but could the blowing of the stone have been a summons , a sort of sending the ...
... round , leastways so I've heered lawyer Smith say , and he knows a smart sight about them old times . " We can scarcely swallow lawyer Smith's seven miles , but could the blowing of the stone have been a summons , a sort of sending the ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ain't amongst Arthur backswording ball BATTLE OF ASHDOWN beat em began Benjy big boys BLOWING STONE Brown bullying called calling-over catch cheers close coach comes cricket Diggs Doctor door Dunchurch East East's eyes fags farmer feel fellow fifth-form fight fire Flashman football give goal guard half half-year hall hand head heart hoora horses keep kick legs lesson look lower-fourth Martin master match miles mind minute morning never night old boy old Brooke Pig and Whistle play players-up poor præpostor pull rest round Rugby rush school-house boys scrummage shouts side sixth-form boy small boys soon sort Squire stand stop supper Tadpole talk tell there's thing thought Tom Brown Tom's turn Vale village walked White Horse Hill whole Willum young Brooke
Populaire passages
Pagina 331 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
Pagina 364 - But O blithe breeze! and O great seas, Though ne'er, that earliest parting past, On your wide plain they join again, Together lead them home at last. One port, methought. alike they sought, One purpose hold where'er they fare, — O bounding breeze. O rushing seas! At last, at last, unite them there!
Pagina 227 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Pagina 342 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Pagina 152 - ... command, and, let who would yield or make truce, would fight the fight out (so every boy felt) to the last gasp and the last drop of blood. Other sides of his character might take hold of and influence boys here and there, but it was this thoroughness and undaunted courage which, more than anything else, won his way to the hearts of the great mass of those on whom he left his mark, and made them believe first in him, and then in his Master.
Pagina 335 - And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Pagina 78 - Shall I tell him to mind his work, and say he's sent to school to make himself a good scholar ? Well, but he isn't sent to school for that — at any rate, not for that mainly. I don't care a straw for Greek particles, or the digamma ; no more does his mother. What is he sent to school for ? The
Pagina 375 - the birthright of British boys old and young, as habeas corpus and trial by jury are of British men." "The discipline and reliance on one another which it teaches is so valuable, I think," went on the master, " it ought to be such an unselfish game.
Pagina 335 - And they went every one straight forward : whither the spirit was to go, they went ; and they turned not when they went.
Pagina 278 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...