My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important ...point, you know, that the tutor should be dignified and at a distance from the pupil, and that the pupil should be as much as possible degraded.... So I sit at the further end of the room; outside the door (which is shut) sits the scout; outside the outer door (also shut) sits the sub-scout: half-way downstairs sits the sub- sub-scout: and down in the yard sits the pupil. The questions are shouted from one to the other, and the answers come back in the same way--it is rather confusing till you are well used to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
OUR Latin books in motly row, Invite us to our task--... Gay Horace, stately Cicero: Yet there's one verb, when once we know, No higher skill we ask: This ranks all other lore above-- We've learned "'Amare' means 'to love'!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having... seen such a thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!" (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed... to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember... feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is "Who in the world am I?" Ah, that's the great puzzle!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought... to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now," she added in a sorrowful tone: "At least there's no room to grow up any more here."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said ...the Cat. "I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "Mas long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I alw...ays did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them... up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »