 I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys within, and never permitted to stir out to meet civility abroad But are you sure you are fit...  Norske universitets- og skole-annaler - Side 211redigert av - 1842Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1905 - 500 sider
...without recollecting until he landed that he should first know something of Dutch himself, who says : " May I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey than an usher in a boarding-school." t The earliest mention apparently of the Aitlfl/ipe... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 sider
...pretty career, that has been chalked out for you. I have been an usher at a boarding-school myself, and may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was brow-beat by the master, hated for my ugly... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 570 sider
...career, that ' has been chalked out for you. I have been an usher at ' a boarding school myself ; and may I die by an anodyne ' necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in ' Newgate. I was up early and late : I was browbeat ' by the master, hated for my... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - 1910 - 370 sider
...been, 1 ' says the Philosophic Vagabond's cousin to him, " an usher at a boarding-school myself, and may I die by an anodyne necklace but I had rather be underturnkey at Newgate. I was up early and late; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face... | |
 | Arthur Kemball Cook, Christopher Johnson - 1917 - 628 sider
...Wakefleld (chap, xx.) has been often quoted : " I have been an usher at a boardingschool myself; and may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate". The Vicar of Wakefleld was published in 1766. broke out in Old Commoners.... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Board of Education - 1955 - 764 sider
...pretty career, that has been chalked out for you. I have been an usher at a boarding-school myself; and may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late: I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly... | |
 | Courtenay Frederic William Dunn - 1920 - 336 sider
...Dutchmen English, without recollecting that he should first know something of Dutch himself, says : " May I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an underturnkey than an usher in a boarding school." Other charms for toothache were — driving a nail... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 sider
...theme the statement in the Vicar of IVakefield: "I have been an usher at a boarding school myself, and, may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate." The poem gives the impressions of a poet who had been an usher at Westminster.... | |
 | 2004 - 228 sider
...pretty career that has been chalked out for you. I have been an usher to a boarding-school myself; and may I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate! I was up early and late: I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly... | |
 | 1884 - 672 sider
...Mr. Dobson seem to be altogether astray. The first is the exclamation of George Primrose's cousin : " May I die by an anodyne necklace, but I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate [than an usher at a boarding-school] " (chap. xx. p. 43, Works, Globe ed.).... | |
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