learning by heart

Example Sentences

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I fancied it was a preacher learning by heart his sermon, or an actor his part.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various

I slaved at my repertoire working three hours a week with a coach, and spending hours and hours a day learning by heart at home.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen

The Master used to attach much importance to the learning by heart of Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb.

From A Compilation on Bahá’í Education by Universal House of Justice

It has unfortunately become fashionable to inveigh against the necessary labour of learning by heart the essential principles of grammar, as a useless and intolerable drudgery.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Accordingly the first years of boyhood are the time for learning by heart.

From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various