 Indeed, as he eagerly sparkled at them from the cellarage before mentioned, he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus,...  Barnaby Rudge (and Hard times). - Pàgina 207per Charles Dickens - 1858Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Dickens - 1927 - 396 pàgines
...prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one 'discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute...tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. " Ghljiurnbertwenty," said Mr. Gcadgrind, squarely pointMurdering the Innocents 3 ing with his square... | |
 | John Beck - 1978 - 582 pàgines
...prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute...'I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?' 'Sissy Jupc, sir,' explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and curtseying. 'Sissy is not a name,'... | |
 | Gayle L. Ormiston, Raphael Sassower - 1989 - 178 pàgines
...calculations . . . he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, ... He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute...tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away."67 In a similar fashion, Dickens describes Coketown as "a triumph of fact." It was a town of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1996 - 470 pàgines
...them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus,- 1 too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for...tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away. Liquid measure appointed by statute to be employed throughout the United Kingdom, in distinction to... | |
 | Gerald Coles - 1999 - 226 pàgines
...Cradgrind, instructing his "little pitchers," looked around his classroom and said: "Girl number twenty ... I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?" "Sissy...explained number twenty, blushing, standing up, and curtsying. "Sissy is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. "Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia."... | |
 | James L. Hughes - 2001 - 340 pàgines
...explains how, after destropn* I*P teachers try to galvanize it into spasmodic activity. MGirl nnmber twenty," said Mr. Gradgrind, squarely pointing with...I don't know that girl. Who is that girl?" " Sissy Is not a name," said Mr. Gradgrind. " Don't call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia." " It's father... | |
 | Gerald Graff - 2004 - 320 pàgines
...facts." As Dickens's narrator comments, Gradgrind sees students as "a galvanizing apparatus, . . . charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the...young imaginations that were to be stormed away." Gradgrind's compulsion is to stamp out imagination wherever it threatens to break out. Asking his students... | |
 | Heidi Stillman - 2003 - 166 pàgines
...and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts ! Girl Number Twenty, I don't know that girl. Who is that girl? Sissy Jupe, sir. MR. GRADGRIND: Sissy is not a name. Call yourself Cecilia. SISSY: It's Father as calls me Sissy, sir.... | |
 | John P. Bequette - 2004 - 184 pàgines
...romanticism or creativity in his students. Dickens describes him as "a galvanizing apparatus." who is "charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the...young imaginations that were to be stormed away." Gradgrind regularly tells his daughter Louisa to "Never wonder.'" He has no patience for the creative... | |
 | C. A. & Thomas, B. R. - 1994 - 304 pàgines
...prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a. galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute...curtseying. 'Sissy is not a name,' said Mr Gradgrind. 'Don'tvall yourself Sissy. n Call yourself Cecilia.' 'It's father as calls me Sissy, sir,' returned... | |
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