The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1 |
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In their breasts the fires of the Puritans still burn ; they know the truth , and feel it ;
they love humanityliberty . May God bless them . Nor have I forgotten that I found
many noble hearts in England : they took me by the hand , and gave me a ...
In their breasts the fires of the Puritans still burn ; they know the truth , and feel it ;
they love humanityliberty . May God bless them . Nor have I forgotten that I found
many noble hearts in England : they took me by the hand , and gave me a ...
الصفحة 12
xii If by these pages I shall inspire one reader with a higher love for Truth and
Freedom ; with a deeper indignation against wrong ; with a nobler purpose to
diffuse the hallowed spirit of Liberty throughout the world , I shall feel I have not
written ...
xii If by these pages I shall inspire one reader with a higher love for Truth and
Freedom ; with a deeper indignation against wrong ; with a nobler purpose to
diffuse the hallowed spirit of Liberty throughout the world , I shall feel I have not
written ...
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I begin to feel the truth of that well - known saying of Johnson , “ There is no
solitude so awful to the stranger as London . ” world through which I was moving .
The lamps here. After I left the railway station at Euston Square , I rode on mile
after ...
I begin to feel the truth of that well - known saying of Johnson , “ There is no
solitude so awful to the stranger as London . ” world through which I was moving .
The lamps here. After I left the railway station at Euston Square , I rode on mile
after ...
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But we are told , and with some truth , that what is economy here would be
unbounded extravagance with us . The immense investments in the numerous
railways , nearly all of which have been made during the last ten years , have
produced ...
But we are told , and with some truth , that what is economy here would be
unbounded extravagance with us . The immense investments in the numerous
railways , nearly all of which have been made during the last ten years , have
produced ...
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... and what can be so humiliating as to think that a base - born scoundrel like him
should make slaves of the ancient nobility of the land ? There is much force and
truth in what Bulwer says of our nobility : • They are more remarkable , ' he says ...
... and what can be so humiliating as to think that a base - born scoundrel like him
should make slaves of the ancient nobility of the land ? There is much force and
truth in what Bulwer says of our nobility : • They are more remarkable , ' he says ...
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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...