School and College DaysKirk Munroe, Mary Hartwell Catherwood Hall and Locke Company, 1902 - 393 pages Young folks' library is a 20-volume compendium of children's literature of all lands carefully selected by an editorial board led by Thomas Baily Aldrich. Each volume deals with a distinct department of letters such as stories, fairy tales, poetry, folklore, etc., or has a special theme such as adventure, exploration, nature, school, biography, history, science, etc. This volume is a collection of stories about school and college, which were selected by the male editor with an eye to the interests of boys and by the female editor with an eye to the interests of girls. |
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Page 12 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever "twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 92 - Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee ! The many rend the skies with loud applause ; So Love was crown'd, but Music won the cause. The prince, unable to conceal his pain...
Page 282 - Let — not — your — heart — be — troubled. In — my — Father's — house — are — many — mansions.
Page 226 - Paul had spelled out number two, he found he had no idea of number one ; fragments whereof afterwards obtruded themselves into number three, which slided into number four, which grafted itself on to number two. So that whether twenty Romuluses made a Remus, or hie htec hoc was Troy weight, or a verb always agreed with an ancient Briton, or three times four was Taurus a bull, were open questions with him. " Oh, Dombey, Dombey ! " said Miss Blimber,
Page 106 - ... mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel; and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven: these, I repeat, must be cut off; think of the time wasted, of — ' Mr Brocklehurst was here interrupted; three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room.
Page 114 - Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to guard us...
Page 208 - ... was considered to have a special application to him. Whatsoever the public meeting held in Coketown, and whatsoever the subject of such meeting, some Coketowner was sure to seize the occasion of alluding to his eminently practical friend Gradgrind. This always pleased the eminently practical friend. He knew it to be his due, but his due was acceptable. He had reached the neutral ground upon the outskirts of the town, which was neither town nor country, and yet was either spoiled, when his ears...
Page 42 - Sedley's coach, sister,' said Miss Jemima. 'Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coachman has a new red waistcoat. ' ' Have you completed all the necessary preparations incident to Miss Sedley's departure, Miss Jemima ? ' asked Miss Pinkerton herself, that majestic lady — the Semiramis of Hammersmith, the friend of Dr.
Page 102 - I did not doubt he was making disclosures of my villainy, and I watched her eye with painful anxiety, expecting every moment to see its dark orb turn on me a glance of repugnance and contempt. I listened too; and as I happened to be seated quite at the top of the room, I caught most of what he said: its import relieved me from immediate apprehension. 'I suppose, Miss Temple, the thread I bought at Lowton will do; it struck me that it would be just of the quality for the calico chemises, and I sorted...
Page 24 - ... amongst whom was Tom, sat chatting about on one another's beds, with their jackets and waistcoats off. Poor little Arthur was overwhelmed with the novelty of his position. The idea of sleeping in the room with strange boys had clearly never crossed his mind before, and was as painful as it was strange to him. He could hardly bear to take his jacket off ; however, presently, with an effort, off it came, and then he paused and looked at Tom, who was sitting at the bottom of his bed talking and...