The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 1Harper & brothers, 1842 |
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الصفحة 155
... comforts within his reach , in order that he may hoard up enough to purchase a more decent burial , a better shroud , or a firmer coffin than the parish will afford . " No ! let things be called by their right names ; this is not ...
... comforts within his reach , in order that he may hoard up enough to purchase a more decent burial , a better shroud , or a firmer coffin than the parish will afford . " No ! let things be called by their right names ; this is not ...
الصفحة 156
... comforts as well as neces- saries of life ; would educate their children , and el- evate the whole labouring class . After all that is said , then , about the humane pro- vision for the parish poor , they are great sufferers . All the ...
... comforts as well as neces- saries of life ; would educate their children , and el- evate the whole labouring class . After all that is said , then , about the humane pro- vision for the parish poor , they are great sufferers . All the ...
الصفحة 158
... comfort of vast multitudes who are by it furnished with labour and the reward which industry brings . But the deep poverty and the tears of the operatives we know nothing of . Not a day in the year passes that the sails of NUMBER OF ...
... comfort of vast multitudes who are by it furnished with labour and the reward which industry brings . But the deep poverty and the tears of the operatives we know nothing of . Not a day in the year passes that the sails of NUMBER OF ...
الصفحة 189
Charles Edwards Lester. • THE WIDOW'S STORY . 189 them . The little comforts we had in the house I was obliged to sell to get us bread ; and the expenses of the funeral and the taxes soon swept away nearly all our furniture and my ...
Charles Edwards Lester. • THE WIDOW'S STORY . 189 them . The little comforts we had in the house I was obliged to sell to get us bread ; and the expenses of the funeral and the taxes soon swept away nearly all our furniture and my ...
الصفحة 217
... comfort of his pastor , and wife , and children , all as dear to the Dissenter's heart as to the Churchman are his ? Do you not , sir , commit great wrong when you take from me those rights and privileges which you prize so dearly ? If ...
... comfort of his pastor , and wife , and children , all as dear to the Dissenter's heart as to the Churchman are his ? Do you not , sir , commit great wrong when you take from me those rights and privileges which you prize so dearly ? If ...
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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...