The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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الصفحة 43
... mills , hinges , leather and horn powder flasks , corkscrews , gun flints , steel keys and combs , glass buttons , bed and coach screw maker , umbrella - fur- niture maker , paper - mould maker , button solderer , paper spectacle - case ...
... mills , hinges , leather and horn powder flasks , corkscrews , gun flints , steel keys and combs , glass buttons , bed and coach screw maker , umbrella - fur- niture maker , paper - mould maker , button solderer , paper spectacle - case ...
الصفحة 145
... mill- ions as easily as it raised thousands in the days of Elizabeth ; the metropolis is six times the size which it was a century ago ; it has nearly doubled during the present reign ( 1802 ) . A thousand carriages drive about the ...
... mill- ions as easily as it raised thousands in the days of Elizabeth ; the metropolis is six times the size which it was a century ago ; it has nearly doubled during the present reign ( 1802 ) . A thousand carriages drive about the ...
الصفحة 157
... materials for a picture of Manchester . " I went through several of the largest mills , and some of the smaller ones . In every instance the pro VOL . I. O prietors and overlookers who led me round wished me to MANCHESTER. ...
... materials for a picture of Manchester . " I went through several of the largest mills , and some of the smaller ones . In every instance the pro VOL . I. O prietors and overlookers who led me round wished me to MANCHESTER. ...
الصفحة 158
... mills there were certain large rooms crowded with operatives ( I was told ) , which , for reasons best known to the proprietors , I was not permitted to enter . I can easily imagine that a person may go through many an English factory ...
... mills there were certain large rooms crowded with operatives ( I was told ) , which , for reasons best known to the proprietors , I was not permitted to enter . I can easily imagine that a person may go through many an English factory ...
الصفحة 162
... mill in Manchester : " We are well off for hands in Manchester , ' said Mr. ; ' manufactures are favourable to popu- lation ; the poor are not afraid of having a family here ; the parishes , therefore , have always plenty to apprentice ...
... mill in Manchester : " We are well off for hands in Manchester , ' said Mr. ; ' manufactures are favourable to popu- lation ; the poor are not afraid of having a family here ; the parishes , therefore , have always plenty to apprentice ...
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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...