My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 41
... carry out the resemblance to the poem , and summon up to my imagination this charming spot whenever I read it . In one corner of this field there was a rather deep circular hole , from which chalk was brought up as a top - dressing for ...
... carry out the resemblance to the poem , and summon up to my imagination this charming spot whenever I read it . In one corner of this field there was a rather deep circular hole , from which chalk was brought up as a top - dressing for ...
Page 43
... carried out with great regularity and very little noise , and the crowds of brightly clad boys , who had red leather belts over their blue coats , and whose yellow stockings were well visible , together with the fine , lofty hall , had ...
... carried out with great regularity and very little noise , and the crowds of brightly clad boys , who had red leather belts over their blue coats , and whose yellow stockings were well visible , together with the fine , lofty hall , had ...
Page 44
... carried round the town on their supporters ' shoulders seated in a chair highly decorated with rosettes and coloured ribbons . I well remember the election which took place after the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed , when Thomas Slingsby ...
... carried round the town on their supporters ' shoulders seated in a chair highly decorated with rosettes and coloured ribbons . I well remember the election which took place after the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed , when Thomas Slingsby ...
Page 50
... carried on the work of teaching about eighty boys by four masters , all in one room , with great regularity and with no marked incon- venience . Whatever might be the noise and games going on when he was absent , the moment his step was ...
... carried on the work of teaching about eighty boys by four masters , all in one room , with great regularity and with no marked incon- venience . Whatever might be the noise and games going on when he was absent , the moment his step was ...
Page 59
... carry away my books and take formal leave of Mr. Crutwell . After having got to this point even , the dream reappeared , and I went over the last school - day again and again ; and then the final stage came , in which I seemed to have ...
... carry away my books and take formal leave of Mr. Crutwell . After having got to this point even , the dream reappeared , and I went over the last school - day again and again ; and then the final stage came , in which I seemed to have ...
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