learning by heart
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Those who exert ingenuity as well as memory in learning by heart, may not, perhaps, associate sounds with so much expedition, but they will have the power of recollection in a greater degree.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
It is not so much the performances themselves, great as the strain of these actually is, but the constant, never-ceasing learning by heart, and the drag of continuous rehearsing.
From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard
As a boy he showed an extraordinary fondness for collecting and learning by heart the legends and old-time ballads which were current in that part of Scotland where he was born.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various
Many schools realise, too, that learning by heart and, in general, memorising from books are not the only means of storing the mind of a child.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
Being moreover a scholarly fellow, he and Ambrose fell into a discussion over the passage of Virgil, copied out on a bit of paper, which he was learning by heart.
From The Armourer's Prentices by W.J. Hennessy
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