ellauri141.html on line 490: Koulutarinakokoelman Minä ja kumppanit (Stalky & Co.), nuoret päähenkilöt ovat besserwissereitä ja isänmaallisuuteen sekä auktoriteetteihin kyynisesti suhtautuvia. Perheen mukaan Kipling tykkäsi lukea Minä ja kumppanit -tarinoita perheelleen ääneen ja remahti aina välillä nauramaan omille vitseilleen.
ellauri141.html on line 502: George Beresford ('Turkey'), who shared a study with Kipling and Dunsterville ('Stalky'), reports Kipling as bad at Latin and with no Greek. Little of his education stuck. His reputation at school was of someone who was imprecise about scansion, long or short syllables and syntax, and who made wild and funny guesses at the sense.
ellauri141.html on line 507: Kipling himself confessed that ‘every Latin quantity was an arbitrary mystery’ to him, that his teacher Crofts ‘loathed me as to Latin’ and that he had construed the beginning of the Cleopatra Ode (1.37) very badly on one occasion. It was M'Turk/Beresford who composed the Latin elegiacs translating Gray’s Elegy which Stalky and Beetle needed to prepare.
ellauri141.html on line 513: Kipling encountered him as a schoolboy, and wrote in Something of Myself (p.33) that C----, his classics master ('King' in Stalky & Co.) ...taught me to loath Horace for two years, to forget him for twenty, and then to love him for the rest of my days and through many sleepless nights.
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