 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1893 - 326 pages
...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 - 1846 - 550 pages
...supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and it was at once the business and de. light of his life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. In fact,...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 - 1847 - 368 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 life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. common at untimely seasons, and from mere sprouts of bushes, under Doctor Blimber's cultivation. Every... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1847 - 364 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 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 - English fiction - 1848 - 564 pages
...gentlemen, but he had, always ready, a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estintate ; 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 - 1848 - 730 pages
...had, always ready, a supply of learning for a hundred, on the lowest estimate ; and'it was at puce the business and delight of his life to gorge the...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the y«ar round. Mathematical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Businessmen - 1848 - 752 pages
...the position in which he was to shine; and that Doctor Bliaiber should take him in hand immediately. In fact, Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great...work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green-peas wi-rc preduw-d at Christmas, md intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1848 - 730 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 life to gorge the unhappy ten with it. berries (very sour ones too) were common at untimely seasons, and from mere sprouts of bushes, under... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1852 - 572 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 life...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. 
