The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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الصفحة 35
... comforting in- telligence that the day of grace is over , and that he has now an opportunity of redeeming the property . The Jew had received from 50 to 500 per cent . for his money . " If you can conceive it possible , gaming becomes ...
... comforting in- telligence that the day of grace is over , and that he has now an opportunity of redeeming the property . The Jew had received from 50 to 500 per cent . for his money . " If you can conceive it possible , gaming becomes ...
الصفحة 94
... comfort to you to have it back ? ” “ No , sir , it's picked now ; I shouldn't have cared a fig about it , if there had been another . But there is a bud here , I see , and I shall have another rose in a few days . " I handed her a crown ...
... comfort to you to have it back ? ” “ No , sir , it's picked now ; I shouldn't have cared a fig about it , if there had been another . But there is a bud here , I see , and I shall have another rose in a few days . " I handed her a crown ...
الصفحة 144
... comfort , and without hope ; without morals , without religion , and without shame ; and bring forth slaves , like themselves , to tread in the same path of misery . " The dwellings of the labouring manufacturers are in narrow streets ...
... comfort , and without hope ; without morals , without religion , and without shame ; and bring forth slaves , like themselves , to tread in the same path of misery . " The dwellings of the labouring manufacturers are in narrow streets ...
الصفحة 150
... comfort him in sickness , and close his eyes in death's peaceful sleep . There can be no doubt that it costs the poor man five times as much to be a subject of Great Britain , if he lives on this island , as it would if he were a ...
... comfort him in sickness , and close his eyes in death's peaceful sleep . There can be no doubt that it costs the poor man five times as much to be a subject of Great Britain , if he lives on this island , as it would if he were a ...
الصفحة 152
... comfort is defined in the vocabulary of men who have learned to dispense with a greater part of what other men call ... comforts . Instances are not a few in which the inmates of these houses die in lonely , filthy chambers by night ...
... comfort is defined in the vocabulary of men who have learned to dispense with a greater part of what other men call ... comforts . Instances are not a few in which the inmates of these houses die in lonely , filthy chambers by night ...
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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...