The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1 |
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DEAR It is my first night in London . The bells of St. Paul's have just struck the hour of midnight . I am sitting in an old oak chair , in a narrow and gloomy apartment of the Guildhall Coffee - house , which stands in the heart of ...
DEAR It is my first night in London . The bells of St. Paul's have just struck the hour of midnight . I am sitting in an old oak chair , in a narrow and gloomy apartment of the Guildhall Coffee - house , which stands in the heart of ...
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In that stately mansion is heard the sound of mirth and revelry , while by its side an orphan , who has this very day asked for food a thousand times , and asked in vain , is shivering in the cold damps of night . In that lonely chamber ...
In that stately mansion is heard the sound of mirth and revelry , while by its side an orphan , who has this very day asked for food a thousand times , and asked in vain , is shivering in the cold damps of night . In that lonely chamber ...
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19 week as well as they can , and when Saturday night comes I go home , and we have some good things , and are so happy when we are together that we think we have pretty good times . " " How much do you get by selling these Companions ?
19 week as well as they can , and when Saturday night comes I go home , and we have some good things , and are so happy when we are together that we think we have pretty good times . " " How much do you get by selling these Companions ?
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They are very punctilious in discharging these ' debts of honour , ' and I have known splendid fortunes entirely ruined in a single night . There is a vast number of gaming - houses in London , but the chief of all is Crockford's ...
They are very punctilious in discharging these ' debts of honour , ' and I have known splendid fortunes entirely ruined in a single night . There is a vast number of gaming - houses in London , but the chief of all is Crockford's ...
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... for debts of honour contracted at Crockford's before he was twenty - one years old , the enormous sum of £ 100,000 ; and at about the same time , Lord the grandson of an aged and venerable earl , lost £ 30,000 in one night .
... for debts of honour contracted at Crockford's before he was twenty - one years old , the enormous sum of £ 100,000 ; and at about the same time , Lord the grandson of an aged and venerable earl , lost £ 30,000 in one night .
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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...
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