Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster
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ISBN13: 9780217828208
Paperback|9780217828208
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE HELLENISTS. I Have been dubbed Hellenist. Nay, never start, Eeader: I am too proud to be conceited. There: you need not stand uncovered. I am invested with the Latin Order of the Garter, and the Greek Order of the Golden Fleece. I am standing on a peak in Darien, and staring at a new Pacific, broad and blue, wherein lie happy islands. I have reached the zenith of all boyish hopes; surely, henceforth my path will slope downwards to the grave. I am self-poised, self- centred. All pettiness of vanity is swallowed up in an absorbing contentment and pride. For three years I shall pace the old, shadowy cloisters; then for as many years shall I walk the garden of Academus; and then pass into the great world by one of two roads; and at the end of one road I candimly see men with grey wigs and silk gowns; and at the end of the other, a circle of reverend Elders with white lawn sleeves. 0 Phaethon, Phaethon, your head is turning giddy To descend, then, from my dizzy flight. 1 am in the middle of my seventeenth year. / have had nine years of classical drilling. All that I have as yet learnt might very easily, indeed, have been acquired, had I commenced in my thirteenth instead of in my eighth year, and had the system of instruction been natural and easy instead of being unnatural and difficult. This I state unhesitatingly, after having twice carried a class through the whole of a school curriculum of seven years. Had it been my lot now to leave school, I should have carried away a rather pleasant remembrance of my first usher, and'an affectionate remembrance of but one Master, Delille. It was only in the Hellenist class that I came to love and venerate Eice, to love and admire Webster. Speaking from the light of subsequent experience, I believe no school in the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217828208 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217828205 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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