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Page 31
... heard after we were gone to bed , to make the last six beds in the dormitory , where the youngest children of us slept , answerable for an offence they neither dared to commit , nor had the power to hinder . The same execrable tyranny ...
... heard after we were gone to bed , to make the last six beds in the dormitory , where the youngest children of us slept , answerable for an offence they neither dared to commit , nor had the power to hinder . The same execrable tyranny ...
Page 34
... heard he did not do quite so well by himself , as he had done by the old folks . I was a hypochondriac lad ; and the sight of a boy in fetters , upon the day of my first putting on the blue clothes , was not exactly fitted to assuage ...
... heard he did not do quite so well by himself , as he had done by the old folks . I was a hypochondriac lad ; and the sight of a boy in fetters , upon the day of my first putting on the blue clothes , was not exactly fitted to assuage ...
Page 39
... heard sounds of the Ululantes , and caught glances of Tartarus . B. was a rabid pedant . His English style was crampt to barbarism . His Easter anthems ( for his duty obliged him to those periodical flights ) were grating as scrannel ...
... heard sounds of the Ululantes , and caught glances of Tartarus . B. was a rabid pedant . His English style was crampt to barbarism . His Easter anthems ( for his duty obliged him to those periodical flights ) were grating as scrannel ...
Page 40
... heard , to himself , of whipping the boy , and reading the Debates , at the same time ; a paragraph , and a lash between ; which in those times , when parliamentary oratory was most at a height and flourishing in these realms , was not ...
... heard , to himself , of whipping the boy , and reading the Debates , at the same time ; a paragraph , and a lash between ; which in those times , when parliamentary oratory was most at a height and flourishing in these realms , was not ...
Page 41
... heard it ( the pedagogue himself not excepted ) — that remission was unavoidable . - L. has given credit to B.'s great merits as an instructor . Coleridge , in his literary life , has pro- nounced a more intelligible and ample encomium ...
... heard it ( the pedagogue himself not excepted ) — that remission was unavoidable . - L. has given credit to B.'s great merits as an instructor . Coleridge , in his literary life , has pro- nounced a more intelligible and ample encomium ...
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