 | E. C. - 1874 - 300 sivua
...these days of eager and hot competition than they were then. " Dr Blimber's establishment was like a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental greenpeas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries... | |
 | James Platt - 1876 - 218 sivua
...charge of ten young gentlemen, but having always ready a supply of learning for a hundred, which it was the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with. Such schools are great hothouses, in which there is a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. All the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1877 - 546 sivua
...gentlemen, but he had, always ready, a 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, Doctor Blimber' s establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1880 - 1208 sivua
...Brighton. It was a select school for ten pupils only ; but there was learning enough for ten times ten. ** Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round." Th« doctor was really a ripe scholar, and truly kind-hearted ; but his great fault was over-tasking... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1880 - 1246 sivua
...Brighton. It was a select school for ten pupils only ; but there was learning enough for ten times ten. "Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round." The doctor was really a ripe scholar, and tonkind-hearted ; but his great fault was over-tasking his... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1882 - 420 sivua
...the charge of ten young gentlemen, but he had always ready a supply of learning for a hundred, and it was at once the business and delight of his life...apparatus incessantly at work. All the boys blew before tiieir time. Mental green peas "were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 sivua
...of the plants were always ready to lend a helping hand at the bellows, and to stir the fire. ***** ments of unfinished walls and arches, and piles of...cranes, and tripods straddling above nothing. There were green-peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 876 sivua
...once the business and delight of his life 10 gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact, Doctor Biimber's establishment was a great hot-house, in which there...incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. Meiit.il grctn-pca3 produced at Christmas, and intellectu.il asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
 | Malcolm Alexander Morris, Sir Malcolm Alexander Morris - 1883 - 1148 sivua
...it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. " In fact, Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus constantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 874 sivua
...gentlemen, but he had, always ready, a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and delight of his life...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental greenpeas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all tlie year round. Mathematical... | |
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Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. 
