 I have been behind the scholastic curtain for twelve long years. There was no entire chapter in the book more broken with pitfalls than that, composed in doggerel, which treated of the rules for gender. Not one word, I am sure, of an exceptionable kind...  Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster - Página 5por D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - 1864 - 328 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1866 - 684 páginas
...more broken with pitfalls than that composed in doggerel which treats of the rules for gender. Not one word I am sure, of an exceptionable kind, had...questions. Oh, the sweet simple faith of childhood 1 We had been told to commit those lines to memory, and we committed them. They would doubtless do... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 páginas
...all unintelligible, all obscure. String npou string of jangling unmusical lincs would we repe at with singular rapidity, understanding nothing, asking no...questions. Oh ! the sweet simple faith of childhood! for five dreary years the process went on ; we committed daily to memory some page or half-page of... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 80 páginas
...It was all unintelligible, all obscure ; but some spots were wrapt in more than ordinary gloom. Not one word, I am sure, of an exceptionable kind had...rapidity ; understanding nothing ; asking no questions." — PROFESSOR D'ARCY THOMPSON (Day-dreams of a Schoolmaster, ch. i.). " La me'thode a suivre est la... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 78 páginas
...It was all unintelligible, all obscure; but some spots were wrapt in more than ordinary gloom. Not one word, I am sure, of an exceptionable kind had...singular rapidity ; understanding nothing ; asking no questions."—PROFESSOR D'ARCY THOMPSON {Day-dreams of a Schoolmaster, ch. i.). " La me"thode a suivre... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1892 - 694 páginas
...more broken with pitfalls than that, composed in doggerel, which treated of the rules for gender. Not one word, I am sure, of an exceptionable kind had...They would, doubtless, do us good in the latter days. We should, at all events, be flogged there and then, unless we sang them like caged birds. It was the... | |
 | Howard Clive Barnard - 1913 - 294 páginas
...remained in the old Latin; and the Latin was communicated in a hideously discordant rhythm....String upon string of jangling unmusical lines could we repeat...rapidity; understanding nothing; asking no questions 1 ." This was perhaps typical of the state of things in an English public or grammar school until the... | |
 | Howard Clive Barnard - 1913 - 294 páginas
...quantity remained in the old Latin ; and the Latin was communicated in a hideously discordant rhythm.... String upon string of jangling unmusical lines could...singular rapidity ; understanding nothing ; asking no questions1." This was perhaps typical of the state of things in an English public or grammar school... | |
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