The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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... children of my love born to the heritage of Southern slavery , than to see them subjected to the blighting bondage of the poor Eng- lish operative's life . England is a proud and wicked nation . In her insatiate love of gain and ...
... children of my love born to the heritage of Southern slavery , than to see them subjected to the blighting bondage of the poor Eng- lish operative's life . England is a proud and wicked nation . In her insatiate love of gain and ...
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... child- hood I had so often read , and about which I had thought so long and so earnestly . I longed for daylight to unfold the wonders of that crowded VOL . I. - B world through which I was moving . The lamps here THE GLORY AND THE ...
... child- hood I had so often read , and about which I had thought so long and so earnestly . I longed for daylight to unfold the wonders of that crowded VOL . I. - B world through which I was moving . The lamps here THE GLORY AND THE ...
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... children : he loves them , perhaps , although this in- fernal passion generally annihilates the social affec- tions ; but he would take the last crust from his child's mouth , and cast him upon the unpitying world , sooner than give up ...
... children : he loves them , perhaps , although this in- fernal passion generally annihilates the social affec- tions ; but he would take the last crust from his child's mouth , and cast him upon the unpitying world , sooner than give up ...
الصفحة 55
... children may work hard all the time , and yet not be able to get a compensation for it sufficient to procure any of the means of social or moral elevation . In England , the poor must labour or starve ; and they must let their employers ...
... children may work hard all the time , and yet not be able to get a compensation for it sufficient to procure any of the means of social or moral elevation . In England , the poor must labour or starve ; and they must let their employers ...
الصفحة 65
... child , will first of all , as he enters the " Poets ' Corner , " seek the monument of SHAKSPEARE . And when he sees the tablet of the great poet , and stands where he so often stood , he will feel that it is a crisis in his life . Said ...
... child , will first of all , as he enters the " Poets ' Corner , " seek the monument of SHAKSPEARE . And when he sees the tablet of the great poet , and stands where he so often stood , he will feel that it is a crisis in his life . Said ...
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الصفحة 69 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
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...