 | Donald Hawes - 1998 - Страниц: 310
...and pedantic headmaster and proprietor of the school in Brighton where Paul Dombey was a pupil. His 'establishment was a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work'. He 'was a portly gentleman in a suit of black, with strings at his knees, and stockings below them.... | |
 | Julie Scanlon, Amy Waste - 2001 - Страниц: 222
...Dr Blimber's establishment was a great hot-house, in which there was a forcing apparatus constantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental...Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round... Moreover, one young gentleman with a swollen nose and an excessively large head... who had gone through... | |
 | David Lee Miller - 2003 - Страниц: 268
...Blimber appears as a garden-variety Moloch, to whom parents eagerly pass their children through fire: In fact, Doctor Blimber's establishment was a great...incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. (206) In short, however high and false the temperature at which the Doctor kept his hothouse, the owners... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - Страниц: 596
...Brighton. It was a select school for ten pupils only ; but there was learning enough for ten times ten. "Mental green peas were produced at Christmas, and intellectual asparagus all the year round." The doctor was really a ripe scholar, and truly kind-hearted; but his great fault was over-tasking... | |
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Blimber's establishment was a great hothouse, in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. 
