 | English literature - 1816 - 660 pages
...his own words inform us, consisted in his ' beins; singled out from all the other boys, by ' a lad of about fifteen years of age. as a proper object upon ' whom he might let loose the cruelty of his tm|>>T.' ' I choose to forbear a particular recital of the many acts of barbarity, with which he made... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 382 pages
...schools, from the arrogance and cruelty of their senior schoolmates. " My chief affliction," he says, " consisted in my being singled out from all the other...whom he might let loose the cruelty of his temper. One day, as I was sitting alone, on a bench in the school, melancholy, and o ft almost ready to weep... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1830 - 374 pages
...stripling, who had purchased the right to be a tyrant by having first been a slave. " I was," he says, " singled out from all the other boys, by a lad about...whom he might let loose the cruelty of his temper, who, by his savage treatment of me, impressed such a dread of his figure upon my mind that I well remember... | |
 | 1835 - 298 pages
...consolatory text of Scripture. It occurred while he was at a public school. " My chief affliction," he says " consisted in my being singled out from all the other...whom he might let loose the cruelty of his temper. One day, as I was sitting alone upon a bench in the school, melancholy, and almost ready to weep at... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 372 pages
...at home. But my chief affliction consisted in being singled out from all the other boys, by a lad of about fifteen years of age, as a proper object upon...might let loose the cruelty of his temper. I choose to conceal a particular recital of the many acts of barbarity with which he made it his business continually... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...school-mates. '* My chief affliction,'* he says, " coneistcd in my being singled out from all the other boye» family, and they were sot at liberty. MAGNANIMOUS CRIMINAL. Mr. Ryland, tin- artist, who was execu hie temper. One day, as I was sitting alone on a bench in the school, melancholy, and almost ready... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...from the tyranny of one of his companions, " a lad about fifteen years of age," who singled him out " as a proper object upon whom he might let loose the cruelty of his temper;" and so vividly had the savage treatment of this boy impressed his figure on the young sufferer, that... | |
 | Robert Southey - Hymn writers - 1839 - 354 pages
...at home. But my chief affliction consisted in being singled out from all the other boys, by a lad of about fifteen years of age, as a proper object upon...might let loose the cruelty of his temper. I choose to conceal a particular recital of the many acts of barbarity with which he made it his business continually... | |
 | Robert Southey - Hymn writers - 1839 - 352 pages
...home. But rny chief affliction consisted in being singled out from all the other boys, by a lad of about fifteen years of age, as a proper object upon...might let loose the cruelty of his temper. I choose to conceal a particular recital of the many acts of barbarity with which he made it his business continually... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 pages
...schools, from the arrogance and cruelty of their senior schoolmates. "My chief affliction," he says, "consisted in my being singled out from all the other boys, by a lad about fifteen years of age, as a pruper object upon whom he might let loose the cruelty of his temper. One day, as I was sitting alone... | |
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I choose to conceal a particular recital of the many acts of barbarity with which he made it his business continually to persecute me. It will be sufficient to say, that... 
