Works, Band 8Ticknor and Fields, 1869 |
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Abel appeared Barbara better Bevis Marks bill-sticking bills bore brother Butcher called Carpet Bag Charley Walters Chartist child Chuckster Clocker cried Brass dark dead dear Dick door dwarf eyes face fellows fire Garland gone hand head hear heard heard em say heart honorable friend Inspector Field Kit's lady legs lived look Marchioness mind Miss Brass Miss Sally morning mother never night noble savage Old Cheeseman Pavilionstone pine-apples pocket Poissy poor pound present pretty Prodgit Quilp replied returned Richard Swiveller round Sampson Brass says seemed single gentleman sitting sleep small servant smile stood stopped street sure tell there's thing thought Tom Scott took town Trafalgar Square turned Vestry voice walk watering-place Waterloo Waterloo Road William Butcher window wonder word young
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Seite 145 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Seite 103 - ... to his breast, for warmth. It was the hand she had stretched out to him with her last smile — the hand that had led him on through all their wanderings. Ever and anon he pressed it to his lips ; then hugged it to his breast again, murmuring that it was warmer now ; and as he said it he looked, in agony, to those who stood around, as if imploring them to help her. She was dead, and past all help, or need of it.
Seite 135 - A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR THERE was once a child, and lie strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers ; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky ; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of GOD who made the lovely world.
Seite 145 - O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Seite 137 - ... Take me!" And she turned and smiled upon him, — and the star was shining. He grew to be a young man, and was busy at his books, when an old servant came to him and said, "Thy mother is no more.
Seite 44 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Seite 138 - And the star was shining. Thus the child came to be an old man, and his once smooth face was wrinkled, and his steps were slow and feeble, and his back was bent. And one night as he lay upon his bed, his children standing round, he cried, as he had cried so long ago : " I see the star !" They whispered one another,
Seite 63 - Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we ha'n't better company Upon Tyburn Tree!
Seite 106 - When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it with their light.