The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1 |
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الصفحة 13
After I left the railway station at Euston Square , I rode on mile after mile , scarcely realizing that I was among those very scenes of which from childhood I had so often read , and about which I had thought so long and so earnestly .
After I left the railway station at Euston Square , I rode on mile after mile , scarcely realizing that I was among those very scenes of which from childhood I had so often read , and about which I had thought so long and so earnestly .
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... then they don't ask me to take less , and very often give me more . ” " Where does your mother live ? " " She lives about six miles from town now ; but she used to live in Bristol . " " Did you ever hear Robert Hall preach ?
... then they don't ask me to take less , and very often give me more . ” " Where does your mother live ? " " She lives about six miles from town now ; but she used to live in Bristol . " " Did you ever hear Robert Hall preach ?
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This is a stupendous work , being a mile and a quarter in length , seventeen feet high , and twenty - five wide , and constructed at an expense of nearly a million of dollars . The carriages are drawn up by means of a stationary engine ...
This is a stupendous work , being a mile and a quarter in length , seventeen feet high , and twenty - five wide , and constructed at an expense of nearly a million of dollars . The carriages are drawn up by means of a stationary engine ...
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In coming from Liverpool up to London ( a distance of 215 miles ) , almost every variety of scenery is brought to view . There is some legend of romance or fact in history to be told about every hill , and lake , and stream , and hamlet ...
In coming from Liverpool up to London ( a distance of 215 miles ) , almost every variety of scenery is brought to view . There is some legend of romance or fact in history to be told about every hill , and lake , and stream , and hamlet ...
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Ten miles more brought us near Nantwich , which is the first place where the Romans manufactured salt in Britain , and where the widow of the great Milton died 114 years ago . We had here a fine view of the woods of Lord Crewe's domains ...
Ten miles more brought us near Nantwich , which is the first place where the Romans manufactured salt in Britain , and where the widow of the great Milton died 114 years ago . We had here a fine view of the woods of Lord Crewe's domains ...
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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...
الصفحة 268 - Latin Grammar, Part I. Containing the most important Parts of the Grammar of the Latin Language, together with appropriate Exercises in the translating and writing of Latin.
معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1 Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform The Glory and the Shame of England, Charles Edwards Lester |
| المؤلف | Charles Edwards Lester |
| الناشر | Harper & brothers, 1842 |
| أصلي من | جامعة هارفارد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 31 آب (أغسطس) 2007 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0716517892, 9780716517894 |
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