Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... seen the gaunt , shrivelled frame - the sharpened fea- tures - the bloodless , compressed lips , and sunken greedy eye which famine produces , but has felt sick at heart , and inwardly prayed to be preserved , above all things , from ...
... seen the gaunt , shrivelled frame - the sharpened fea- tures - the bloodless , compressed lips , and sunken greedy eye which famine produces , but has felt sick at heart , and inwardly prayed to be preserved , above all things , from ...
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... seen reposing in the streets , with the pavement for a bed and the curb - stone for a pillow . Peacefully do they slumber ! having that within them which makes their flinty couch " soft as the thrice - driven down " -and now do the- of ...
... seen reposing in the streets , with the pavement for a bed and the curb - stone for a pillow . Peacefully do they slumber ! having that within them which makes their flinty couch " soft as the thrice - driven down " -and now do the- of ...
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... seen him manifest , he started from his chair - seized by mis- take a new hat instead of his old one from the pile in the passage , and rushed out of the house . He came not to dinner , and at tea he was not visible ! " Next morn we ...
... seen him manifest , he started from his chair - seized by mis- take a new hat instead of his old one from the pile in the passage , and rushed out of the house . He came not to dinner , and at tea he was not visible ! " Next morn we ...
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... seen making its way , with all possible expedition , down Maiden- lane , in order to catch the boat , but whether it would succeed or not was a very dubious point . One thing was against it ; the wind was blowing freshly up the street ...
... seen making its way , with all possible expedition , down Maiden- lane , in order to catch the boat , but whether it would succeed or not was a very dubious point . One thing was against it ; the wind was blowing freshly up the street ...
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... seen human misery and suffering in every variety of shape and degree , but such another picture of un- qualified wretchedness as the thin young man pre- sented when he found his cash was " buried in the briny tide , " and that he had ...
... seen human misery and suffering in every variety of shape and degree , but such another picture of un- qualified wretchedness as the thin young man pre- sented when he found his cash was " buried in the briny tide , " and that he had ...
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Página 223 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Página 25 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Página 178 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Página 106 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 230 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Página 231 - The Summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Loch Katrine blue ; Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy...
Página 221 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Página 17 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 68 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Página 129 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.