| John Timbs - 1862 - 422 pągines
...boarding-school myself, and may I die of an anodyne necklace, but 1 had rather be under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late : I was browbeat by the master,...ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys."* Once, he was touched to the quick by a piece of schoolboy pertness : " When amusing his young companions... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 438 pągines
...boarding-school myself; and may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late. I was brow-beat by the master,...the boys within, and never permitted to stir out to meet civility abroad. But are you sure you are fit for a school ? Let me examine you a little. Have... | |
| James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 536 pągines
...boarding-school myself, and may I die of an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late, I was browbeat by the master,...my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys." Elsewhere he thus recounts the hardships of an usher's life : — " He is generally the laughing-stock... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pągines
...boarding-school myself, and may I die of an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late : I was browbeat by the master,...my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys." Goldsmith remained but a short time in this situation, and to the mortifications experienced there... | |
| Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pągines
...boarding-school myself, and I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate ; I was up early and late, brow-beat by the master, hated for my ugly face by...the boys within, and never permitted to stir out to meet civility abroad! But are you sure you are fit for a school 1 Let me examine you a little. Have... | |
| 1867 - 876 pągines
..."Vicar of Wakefield" relates his troubles in a school, Goldsmith most have been recalling his own. " I was up early and late. I was brow-beat by the master,...the boys within, and never permitted to stir out to meet civility abroad." Goldsmith found it would not do. Not in this way was he destined to instruct... | |
| 1872 - 398 pągines
...boarding-school myself ; and may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I'd rather be under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late : I was brow-beat by the master,...my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys.' " A century has well-nigh run its course since poor Goldsmith was laid in his unknown grave in the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pągines
...boarding-school myself; and may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. n at any time ; so we went down to the door, where...sentries were posted, and, rushing upon them, seized i i to meet civility abroad. But are you sure ! you are fit for a school ? Let me examine | you a little.... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pągines
...boarding-school myself, and may I die of an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master,...my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys." And here is another description of the hardships of an usher's life : "He is generally the laughing-stock... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pągines
...In- an under-tnrnkey In Newgate. 1 was up '•nrly and late; I was brow-beat by the master. fl im UM! for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys within, and never permitted to stir out to meet civility abroad. But are you sure ;<>n arc fit for a school? Let me examine you a tic. Have you... | |
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