The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1 |
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1 Taking our seats in the carriage , which was furnished in the most expensive manner , with damask linings and the richest scarlet velvet , the whole train entered the grand tunnel which passes under the city .
1 Taking our seats in the carriage , which was furnished in the most expensive manner , with damask linings and the richest scarlet velvet , the whole train entered the grand tunnel which passes under the city .
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I have often been there to gratify my friends , and am perfectly familiar with the whole establishment , but I never could be prevailed upon to play . I promised my father , when he was dying , that I would do these things ; that I ...
I have often been there to gratify my friends , and am perfectly familiar with the whole establishment , but I never could be prevailed upon to play . I promised my father , when he was dying , that I would do these things ; that I ...
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He went through the whole circle of his friends , and teased them all for money . Many of them gratified him ; but he lost as fast as he borrowed , until he could borrow no more ; and before the season was over he was expelled from ...
He went through the whole circle of his friends , and teased them all for money . Many of them gratified him ; but he lost as fast as he borrowed , until he could borrow no more ; and before the season was over he was expelled from ...
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You will not suppose , from what I have said , that this disgraceful passion infects the whole body of the nobility . Very many of them are among the purest and best men in the world . In virtue , in domestic fidelity and love ...
You will not suppose , from what I have said , that this disgraceful passion infects the whole body of the nobility . Very many of them are among the purest and best men in the world . In virtue , in domestic fidelity and love ...
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... and let the house suffer the consequences . Injustice is never to be borne by free Englishmen . " The name of the speaker was passed from mouth to mouth down the hall , and the whole company received the speech with loud and ...
... and let the house suffer the consequences . Injustice is never to be borne by free Englishmen . " The name of the speaker was passed from mouth to mouth down the hall , and the whole company received the speech with loud and ...
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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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