"Unscholastic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unscholastic wights Unloose their fancies in presumptuous flights, Awak'd to vengeance, on such flights to frown. Clip the wing'd horse, and roll his rider down. But, if empower'd to strike th'immortal lyre. ...
— Poetic Sketches • Thomas Gent
... to be; your mother has to do without a daughter, to a large extent, or to avail herself of one with the uncomfortable feeling that the daughter is losing valuable time thereby, and probably is considering herself a martyr in having to do unscholastic duties. I dare say the daughter feels, "It isn't to please myself that I slave at my lessons; mother would be vexed if I didn't; and it's very hard that I should be both hindered in them and made to do other things as well,—it's ...
— Stray Thoughts for Girls • Lucy H. M. Soulsby |
