 | Francis Espinasse - 1877 - Počet stránok 526
...scholars, and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar, he was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as...rarely ; but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well ; and in general information, history, &c., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - Počet stránok 522
...scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as...it nearly as well. In general information, history, etc. etc., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing." From Harrow he proceeded... | |
 | Alexander Wallace - 1878 - Počet stránok 150
...scholars, and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior. As a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal. As a...rarely, but when I knew it I knew it nearly as well." Peel felt at first that, although he was the son of the wealthiest cotton-spinner in England, there... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - Počet stránok 378
...scholars, and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declairner and actor I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy out of school I was always in scrapes — he, never." The boy is father of the man. We see Peel here as he was in after-life — the scholar,... | |
 | Počet stránok 1080
...at all alike. " As a scholar," Byron has said of him, " he was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as...scrapes, and he never, and in school he always knew his lessons, and I rarely." Peel's name on the wainscoting of the old fourth form room is cut in bolu,... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - Počet stránok 736
...scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal. As a schoolboy, out of school I was always iis scrapes, and he never; and in school, he always knew his lessons, and I rarely ; but when I knew... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Počet stránok 614
...greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal. As a school -boy, out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never...it nearly as well. In general information, history, etc., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing." The anecdote is told how... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Počet stránok 648
...greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal. As a school -boy, out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never...it nearly as well. In general information, history, etc., I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing." The anecdote is told how... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - 1891 - Počet stránok 264
...scholars, and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal; as a...rarely, but when I knew it I knew it nearly as well; and in general information, history, etc., I think I was his superior as well as of most boys of my... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1891 - Počet stránok 232
...scholars, and he has not disappointed them! As a scholar, he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as...knew his lesson, and I rarely; but when I knew it well, I knew it nearly as well ; and in general information, history, &c., I think I was his superior.'... | |
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We were on good terms, but his brother was my intimate friend. There were always great hopes of Peel, amongst us all, masters and scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned... 
