learning by heart

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This facility of learning by heart, and the habit of dreamy recitation, made me very familiar with the Bible and very apt with its phrases.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood

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 Edgeworth, Maria

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 Howard, Kathleen

The instruction in the schools of poetry seems to have been entirely oral, and the course consisted largely in learning by heart the verses in which the native lore was enshrined.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

He may be allowed to read verse at times that would not be suitable for learning by heart.

From Literature for Children by Lowe, Orton