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Page 12
... Poor women who gossip in the street can always be overheard saying something about themselves or their own misfortunes . ' So I goes to Mrs. Jenkins merely to beg the loan of a few coals , and ; and then the story begins , the listener ...
... Poor women who gossip in the street can always be overheard saying something about themselves or their own misfortunes . ' So I goes to Mrs. Jenkins merely to beg the loan of a few coals , and ; and then the story begins , the listener ...
Page 36
... poor a land as they well could have , have by industry and valour kept their heads not only above water , but have placed themselves foremost in the world . Yet , what a small people it is , multiplying fast truly , sending out ...
... poor a land as they well could have , have by industry and valour kept their heads not only above water , but have placed themselves foremost in the world . Yet , what a small people it is , multiplying fast truly , sending out ...
Page 39
... poor projector , who urged his capital idea on the capitalist with all the determination he could . However , the man with the money required time to think and to feel the pulse of the public . Would the public care about a comic paper ...
... poor projector , who urged his capital idea on the capitalist with all the determination he could . However , the man with the money required time to think and to feel the pulse of the public . Would the public care about a comic paper ...
Page 57
... bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long . Poor Human Nature ! Here , in this very quotation , is her weakness discovered . The Campbell - Blair imitation has not half the beauty of the original , but LOOK HIGHER . 57.
... bright ; Mortality's too weak to bear them long . Poor Human Nature ! Here , in this very quotation , is her weakness discovered . The Campbell - Blair imitation has not half the beauty of the original , but LOOK HIGHER . 57.
Page 63
... poor ; ' upon which comes , very appropriately , though the audience hardly catches it - ' Poor ! How these great natures do mistake themselves . ' How they do indeed ! —and yet scarcely so . They have all the world , or all the world ...
... poor ; ' upon which comes , very appropriately , though the audience hardly catches it - ' Poor ! How these great natures do mistake themselves . ' How they do indeed ! —and yet scarcely so . They have all the world , or all the world ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.