"Come back, come back, you pretty little boy, And play your ball again." "I can't come back and I won't come back Without my
schoolfellows all, For if my master he did hear He'd make it a sorry ball." She took him by the lilywhite hand And led him along the hall Until she led him to a room Where none could hear him call.
Beddoes's tempestuousness and morbid inclinations must have been noticed even before being sent to school, but the first recollections of his eccentricities as a child only come from one of his
schoolfellows, Charles Dacres Bevan, a minor student who, willingly or not, was part of Beddoes's frequent acts of insubordination: "The expression of his face was shrewd and sarcastic, with an assumption of sternness, as he affected the character of a tyrant and bully, though really not much of either; but a persevering and ingenious tormentor, as I knew to my cost." (Snow 1928: 12)
Like them--though more innocently--the love poems rework their literary models; for personal feelings one should look to the poems "To his Friend beyond sea," Richard Bacon, Oldisworth's
schoolfellow at Westminster, whose Catholicism would take him abroad to Douay.
(For information on Reid, see the ODNB; for a brief reference to John Reid as Hazlitt's
schoolfellow at Hackney, see Stanley Jones, Hazlitt.
(6) Her older sister, Anna Maria Knowles, was born on 27 September 1789 and was married at Egham on 1 May 1809 to Joseph Gulston, a former
schoolfellow of Peacock's who lived for the next few years at Poplar Lodge, Englefield Green.
They recognize him as Sam Shotter, a former
schoolfellow. The two exquisites looked at each other apprehensively.
Godwin's
schoolfellow Bruno Chilvers exemplifies the new style of clergyman, announcing, "The results of science are the divine message to our age; to neglect them, to fear them, is to remain under the old law while the new is demanding our adherence, to repeat the Jewish error of bygone time.
Always defending the underdog, a
schoolfellow recalled, "he rather stood up for Huxley because he found him interesting." Huxley must have taught him well, for Orwell mastered spoken and written French and would teach French and English at the coeducational Frays School, west of London.
(64.) For poems illustrating this ethos, see Henry Newbolt's 'Clifton Chapel', 'The
Schoolfellow' and 'Vitai Lampada', and Rudyard Kipling's 'If'.
Like his father before him, Arkady chooses domestic satisfactions and a life of small compromises over the absurd "heroism" of his
schoolfellow. The Kirsanov homestead remains, on the whole, ill-managed and unimproved.
Shahnawaz told reporters on Monday his nephew was assaulted by a senior
schoolfellow but the principal did not take any action.
In Bahawalnagar, a seven-year-old Class VII student of Danish School, Chishtian was allegedly assaulted by a
schoolfellow, student of Class IX, on the school premises.
Morrison's antipode is the Machiavellian journalist and politician Somerset LloydJames (thought by many readers to resemble Raven's former
schoolfellow Lord ReesMogg).
When the pain inflicted by his bullying
schoolfellow, Roald Dahl, exceeded the sadomasochistic pain-pleasure ratio, Welch upped and spunkily ran away from Repton.
