 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1893 - 326 pàgines
...friends," few or many, to their utmost capacity, and sometimes beyond it. In fact, Dr. GLADSTONE'S establishment was a great Hot-house, in which there...incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time— or so said the Doctor's rivals and foes. Mental Green Peas were produced in February, and intellectual... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1848 - 730 pàgines
...supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and'it was at puce the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact,...produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the y«ar round. Mathematical gooseberries (very sour ones too) were common at untimely seasons, and from... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1848 - 752 pàgines
...the position in which he was to shine; and that Doctor Bliaiber should take him in hand immediately. In fact, Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great...the boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas wi-rc preduw-d at Christmas, md intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pàgines
...— Cunningham. EXERCISE XXXVI. Little Paul Dombey's Introduction into a Select Fashionable School. DOCTOR BLIMBER'S establishment was a great hot-house,...incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, Doctor Blimber 15 made him bear to pattern,... | |
 | 1852 - 628 pàgines
...reverse method, no less successfully employed. ' Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great hot-house. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas...Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. But there was not the right taste about the premature productions.' All figures are used, or others... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 138 pàgines
...of learning for a • hundred, on the lowest estimate; and it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact,...boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas were proX duced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries were... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 640 pàgines
...supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact,...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 410 pàgines
...he had always ready a supply of learning for a hundred, and it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact, Doctor Blimbcr's establishment was a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 500 pàgines
...supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact,...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1872 - 368 pàgines
...learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and delight of his lite to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact, Doctor...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
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Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. 
