The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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الصفحة 32
... shilling ! I believe he has not seen his wife since they parted . She is ruined as well as himself . I saw her a few days ago , and tried to restore her former spirits ; but I found it a hopeless task . The bloom and joy have all fled ...
... shilling ! I believe he has not seen his wife since they parted . She is ruined as well as himself . I saw her a few days ago , and tried to restore her former spirits ; but I found it a hopeless task . The bloom and joy have all fled ...
الصفحة 33
... shillings . He learned by private information that a certain horse at the races was to win , and he made a large bet , and gain- ed it . Then he purchased a small share in a gam- bling bank ; afterward he engaged in a larger estab ...
... shillings . He learned by private information that a certain horse at the races was to win , and he made a large bet , and gain- ed it . Then he purchased a small share in a gam- bling bank ; afterward he engaged in a larger estab ...
الصفحة 34
... shilling to stake and lose , and then be kicked out of a ' hell ' in London into the hell of the eternal world . " The passion for gambling is the worst passion that can possibly enter the human heart . I hardly ever knew a man who had ...
... shilling to stake and lose , and then be kicked out of a ' hell ' in London into the hell of the eternal world . " The passion for gambling is the worst passion that can possibly enter the human heart . I hardly ever knew a man who had ...
الصفحة 102
... shillings a day ; and multitudes of others , in the ordinary course of their pursuit , made from five to ten shillings daily . Two SYSTEM OF STREET BEGGING . 103 houses in St. Giles's 102 GLORY AND SHAME OF ENGLAND .
... shillings a day ; and multitudes of others , in the ordinary course of their pursuit , made from five to ten shillings daily . Two SYSTEM OF STREET BEGGING . 103 houses in St. Giles's 102 GLORY AND SHAME OF ENGLAND .
الصفحة 103
... shillings for each person . " Why , sir , a negro , who had taken advantage of the sympathy excited in favour of the African race , some time ago retired to the West Indies with £ 1500 , which he had amassed by street begging . Only a ...
... shillings for each person . " Why , sir , a negro , who had taken advantage of the sympathy excited in favour of the African race , some time ago retired to the West Indies with £ 1500 , which he had amassed by street begging . Only a ...
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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...