The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1 |
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Yes , my lord , " I replied , " when I saw , from a glance at the card , that I was addressing an Irish nobleman . " Will you give an Irishman the pleasure of your company ? I have taken one apartment for London , and nothing will be ...
Yes , my lord , " I replied , " when I saw , from a glance at the card , that I was addressing an Irish nobleman . " Will you give an Irishman the pleasure of your company ? I have taken one apartment for London , and nothing will be ...
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There , " said Lord as we entered on the Vale Royal Viaduct at the 32 mile post , " there you can see the spire of Moilton village church , and to the west of it Vale Royal Abbey , the seat of Lord Delamere ; and I can tell you a story ...
There , " said Lord as we entered on the Vale Royal Viaduct at the 32 mile post , " there you can see the spire of Moilton village church , and to the west of it Vale Royal Abbey , the seat of Lord Delamere ; and I can tell you a story ...
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The stone from which this viaduct was built did come from Hill Quarry , in Warrington ; and the good peasantry have been not a little disturbed by it , though Lord Delamere himself follows his hounds and shoots his grouse with as much ...
The stone from which this viaduct was built did come from Hill Quarry , in Warrington ; and the good peasantry have been not a little disturbed by it , though Lord Delamere himself follows his hounds and shoots his grouse with as much ...
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I remarked to Lord that the old sportsman should have enjoyed the race pretty well to compensate for the consequences . " Ah ! " he replied , " if he had felt a moment before it as he did a moment after it , he would probably have made ...
I remarked to Lord that the old sportsman should have enjoyed the race pretty well to compensate for the consequences . " Ah ! " he replied , " if he had felt a moment before it as he did a moment after it , he would probably have made ...
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It will not answer for him to be embarrassed now ; he has made a sensation in the circles of fashion and rank ; it must not be whispered at Almack's that young Lord can no longer keep up his elegant establishment : but he has no money .
It will not answer for him to be embarrassed now ; he has made a sensation in the circles of fashion and rank ; it must not be whispered at Almack's that young Lord can no longer keep up his elegant establishment : but he has no money .
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الصفحة 243 - As one, who, destined from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, but hopes again erewhile To share their converse, and enjoy their smile, And tempers, as he may, affliction's dart ; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you...
الصفحة 190 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
الصفحة 210 - Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children ; they drag them up. The little careless darling of the wealthier nursery, in their hovel is transformed betimes into a premature reflecting person No one has time to dandle it, no one thinks it worth while to coax it, to soothe it, to toss it up and down, to humour it.
الصفحة 227 - Oh, the grave ! — the grave ! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment ! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
الصفحة 211 - It was never sung to — -no one ever told to it a tale of the nursery. It was dragged up, to live or to die as it happened. It had no young dreams. It broke at once into the iron realities of life.
الصفحة 211 - It is the rival, till it can be the co-operator, for food with the parent. It is never his mirth, his diversion, his solace ; it never makes him young again, with recalling his young times. The children of the very poor have no young times.
الصفحة 210 - The innocent prattle of his children takes out the sting of a man's poverty. But the children of the very poor do not prattle. It is none of the least frightful features in that condition, that there is no childishness in its dwellings. Poor people, said a sensible old nurse to us once, do not bring up their children ; they drag them up.
الصفحة 200 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
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