 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 470 pages
...schoolmaster, he says, "had the ceiling of the schoolroom new whitewashed ; the ladder remained there : I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush...effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment." But "genius" is rarely popular in places of education; and it is, to say... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...schoolmaster, he says, "had the ceiling of the schoolroom new whitewashed ; the ladder remained there : I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush...in large capital letters LAU. STERNE, for which the * Byron, Journal, Dec. 1, 1813; but evident])- twisted from Horace Waipole (" Walpoliana," colxv.),... | |
 | England - 1891 - 916 pages
...tells us, " had had the ceiling of the schoolroom new white-washed, and the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with a brush in large capital letters, 'LAU. STERNE,'" an act for which the usher naturally flogged him, though the master (according to Sterne) administered... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 482 pages
...schoolmaster,' he says, ' had the ceiling of the schoolroom new whitewashed : the ladder remained there. I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush in large capitals LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely punished me. My master was much hurt at this, and... | |
 | J. A. Erskine Stuart - English literature - 1892 - 236 pages
...new whitewashed — the ladder remained there. I one unlucky day mounted it and wrote with a brush in capital letters, ' Lau. Sterne,' for which the usher...effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment. This expression made me forget the stripes I had received." This is in the... | |
 | Irish literature - 1893 - 386 pages
...(the schoolmaster) had the ceiling of the schoolroom new whitewashed ; the ladder remained there; I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush...effaced, for I was a boy of genius, and he was sure that I should come to preferment This expression made me forget the stripes I had received." In the... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1894 - 182 pages
...school-master He had had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed — the ladder remained there — I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush in large capital letters, LAU. STERNE, fo which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very much hurt at this, and said, before me,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1900 - 400 pages
...— He had had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed — the ladder remained there — I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush...never should that name be effaced , for I was a boy ot genius, and he was sure I should come to preferment — this expression made me forget the stripes... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1901 - 280 pages
...remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with lt brush, in large capital letters, LAD". STERNE, for which the usher severely whipped me. My master was very innoli hurt at this, and said before me that never should tlmt nuuu) bo ciTuced, for I was a boy of... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1902 - 440 pages
...schoolmaster," he says, " had the ceiling of the schoolroom new whitewashed : the ladder remained there. I one unlucky day mounted it, and wrote with a brush in large capitals LAU. STERNE, for which the usher severely punished me. My master was much hurt at this, and... | |
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Halifax till about the latter end of that year, and cannot omit mentioning this anecdote of myself and schoolmaster : — He had the ceiling of the school-room new white-washed ; the ladder remained there. I, one unlucky day, mounted it, and wrote with... 
