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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analysis of a Text #2
The narrator recalls his childhood.
A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end?and what comes next! I am the head-boy, now! I look down on the line of boys below me, with a condescending interest in such of them as bring to my mind the boy I was myself, when I first came here, That little fellow seems to be no part of me: I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life?as something I have passed, rather than have actually been?and almost think of him as of someone else.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if the underlined nominal phrase means the following:
"the boy's features of them that bring to my mind the boy which I was myself"
Thank you in advance for your help.
A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end?and what comes next! I am the head-boy, now! I look down on the line of boys below me, with a condescending interest in such of them as bring to my mind the boy I was myself, when I first came here, That little fellow seems to be no part of me: I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life?as something I have passed, rather than have actually been?and almost think of him as of someone else.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if the underlined nominal phrase means the following:
"the boy's features of them that bring to my mind the boy which I was myself"
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon "the boy's features of them that bring to my mind the boy which I was myself" This doesn't make proper sense. such of them as bring to my mind the boy I was myself = those boys who remind me of the boy I was myself
- park sang joon "the boy's features of them that bring to my mind the boy which I was myself" This doesn't make proper sense.
- such of them as bring to my mind the boy I was myself = those boys who remind me of the boy I was myself
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park sang joon"the boy's features of them that bring to my mind the boy which I was myself"This doesn't make proper sense.
such of them as bring to my mind the boy I was myself = those boys who remind me of the boy I was myself
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Thank you, GPY, for another so very kind answer from you. 
I'd like to know if in "such of them," "such of" means "those."
I'd like to know if in "such of them," "such of" means "those."
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park sang joonThank you, GPY, for another so very kind answer from you. I'd like to know if in "such of them," "such of" means "those."Well, "such of" can't literally mean "those", but "such of them" means "those of them", more or less, which I think is what you mean.
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