 | 1905 - 424 sivua
...turning out an intellectual product that quite surprised those who furnished the seeds or cuttings. "All the boys blew before their time. Mental green...Christmas and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Nature was of no consequence at all. No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, Dr. Blimber... | |
 | Frederic George Kitton - 1905 - 376 sivua
...cupping-glasses." Here also was the superior and " very expensive " establishment of Dr. Blimber —" a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work," where, we are told, " mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1907 - 258 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...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental greenpeas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. No matter what... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1908
...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 green-peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1908 - 124 sivua
...then six years old, resolved to make a change, and enroll him as a small student under Doctor Blimber. In fact, Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. No matter what... | |
 | Frank Louis Soldan - 1912 - 228 sivua
...was at once the business and the delight of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. "In fact, Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hot-house in which...All the boys blew before their time. Mental green pease were produced at Christmas and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries... | |
 | Frank Louis Soldan - 1912 - 230 sivua
...a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate, and it was at once the business and the 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 incessantly... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1913 - 640 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...Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, Doctor Blimber made him bear to pattern, somehow... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1913 - 380 sivua
...ripe that none may buy Till Cherry Ripe themselves do cry. — THOMAS CAMPION. DOCTOR BLIMBER'S SCHOOL In fact, Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great...forcing apparatus incessantly at work. All the boys blew [bloomed] before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1913 - 168 sivua
...Pickwick ' Dr. Blimber's establishment was a great hot-house in which there was a forcing-apparatus incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their...produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus the year round. Mathematical goose-berries (very sour ones, too) were common at untimely seasons, from... | |
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Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. 
