The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1 |
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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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There is , indeed , an appearance of solidity and strength in nearly all their structures which is very rarely seen in ours . Their houses , public buildings , and works seem formed to last for ages ; and they are , for this reason ...
There is , indeed , an appearance of solidity and strength in nearly all their structures which is very rarely seen in ours . Their houses , public buildings , and works seem formed to last for ages ; and they are , for this reason ...
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In nearly all the fashionable circles this practice prevails . And there are cliques of women who assemble night after night for no other purpose but play , and the wine flashes on the card - table . They gamble on till their money is ...
In nearly all the fashionable circles this practice prevails . And there are cliques of women who assemble night after night for no other purpose but play , and the wine flashes on the card - table . They gamble on till their money is ...
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Here we stopped nearly an hour . We were charged at the refreshment - rooms , for a cold slice of beef and a single buttered roll , half a crown ( sixty - two and a half cents ) , which reminded me 37 INCIDENT AT A TAVERN . that ...
Here we stopped nearly an hour . We were charged at the refreshment - rooms , for a cold slice of beef and a single buttered roll , half a crown ( sixty - two and a half cents ) , which reminded me 37 INCIDENT AT A TAVERN . that ...
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Before we reached the end of our journey we passed under the grand tunnel , nearly a mile in length , which brought us to the environs of the metropolis . Here I parted from my noble fellowtraveller , asking his permission to make our ...
Before we reached the end of our journey we passed under the grand tunnel , nearly a mile in length , which brought us to the environs of the metropolis . Here I parted from my noble fellowtraveller , asking his permission to make our ...
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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.
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| 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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