 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1893 - 326 pages
...gentlemen at a time, but he had always ready a supply of " cram " for a hundred, on the lowest estimate; and it was at once the business and delight of his life to gorge " his young friends," few or many, to their utmost capacity, and sometimes beyond it. In fact, Dr.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1847 - 364 pages
...young 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. 175 common at untimely seasons, and from mere sprouts of bushes, under Doctor Blimber's cultivation.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1847 - 368 pages
...young 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. common at untimely seasons, and from mere sprouts of bushes, under Doctor Blimber's cultivation. Every... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...— Cunningham. EXERCISE XXXVI. Little Paul Dombey's Introduction into a Select Fashionable School. DOCTOR BLIMBER'S establishment was a great hot-house,...incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, Doctor Blimber 15 made him bear to pattern,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1852 - 628 pages
...reverse method, no less successfully employed. ' Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great hot-house. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas...Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. But there was not the right taste about the premature productions.' All figures are used, or others... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 138 pages
...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...boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas were proX duced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries were... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 640 pages
...young 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...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 - 1868 - 410 pages
...undertook 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...to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact, Doctor Blimbcr's establishment was a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1871 - 500 pages
...young 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...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 - 1872 - 368 pages
...learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and delight of his lite to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact, Doctor...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
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Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. 
