"Scholar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, ...
— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce
... powers; and it was impossible that he should contemplate, without pleasure, the extent, the worth, or the splendour of his labours; the services, which he rendered by them to learning and religion, and the admiration and gratitude of the scholar, which he then enjoyed, and which would attend his memory to the latest posterity. He himself acknowledged that, in the ardour of his literary pursuits, he often forgot his calamities, and that the hours passed unheeded, if not in ...
— The Life of Hugo Grotius • Charles Butler
... consider your's: for indeed my patience is almost at an end. And yet I ought to consider, that faithful are the wounds of a friend. But so many things at once! O my dear Mrs. Norton, how shall so young a scholar in the school of affliction be able to bear such heavy and ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson
... sons," said the head-master; "make your scholar's salute, with your hand to your brow, ...
— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis
... He was a scholar of Eton; a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; he won the Greek and Latin Odes in 1820, and the Greek Ode again in 1821. To him, therefore, the classic spirit was inborn, and a training that omitted the study of Latin and Greek the very negation of education. ...
— The Glory of English Prose - Letters to My Grandson • Stephen Coleridge
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