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Staff Directory from the Poets
Each of the following quotations sums up in a few words the
outstanding characteristics of members of the staff. High School
Students will find it very easy to recognise the teachers portrayed.
His “words of learned length and thund’ring sound
Amazed the gazing rustics rang’d around.” (Goldsmith)
She "gave commands, then all smiles stopped together.” (Browning)
"How does he fancy we can sit
To hear his out-of-fashion wit?” (Swift)
"Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies.” (Pope)
"Satire’s my weapon, but I’m too discreet
To run amuck and tilt at all I meet.” (Pope)
He is “older than he would be reckoned,
And well remembers Charles the Second.”
“Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will (Swift)
What others talked of while their hands were still.”
He “has a lean and hungry look; (Whittie)
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”
He is “Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead" (Shakespeare)
"Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, (Keats)
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.”
"Because they are freed from the dull daily Law, (Goldsmith)
They shout, they shout.”
“Dark magician in his vision cave. (Huxley)
Raking the cinders of a crucible.”
(Shelley)
“The forest tomb
Had marred his glossy hair, which once could shoot
Lustre into the sun.”
, (Keats)
"A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit.”
(Dekker)
"when emulation misses
She turns to envy, stings, and hisses.”
(signed) “A speaking fountain for the tongueless faces.” (Swift)
(Comfort)
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Before eight in the morning it is just an ordinary piece of ground
overhung by a large Moreton Bay fig tree. After this hour it is
miraculously transformed into a hallowed spot where only gods (i.e
teachers) are allowed to tread and mortals (i.e. you and I) are forbidden
Surely you have guessed it ? Thats right. ‘ It’s the teachers’ “Car
Park”.