In Dickens StreetJohn Smith, 1912 - 193 Seiten |
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Seite 123 - Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain, To welcome him to this his new abode, Now while the...
Seite 40 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Seite 148 - With Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach!
Seite 164 - Having very little neck, it cost her some trouble to look over herself, if one may say so, at those to whom she talked. She wore a very rusty black gown, rather the worse for snuff, and a shawl and bonnet to correspond.
Seite 182 - ... said Mrs Gamp with emphasis, '"being a extra charge - you are that inwallable person." "Mrs Harris," I says to her, "don't name the charge, for if I could afford to lay all my feller creeturs out for nothink, I would gladly do it, sich is the love I bears 'em.
Seite 182 - Mrs. Gamp;' she says, in answer, ' if ever there was a sober creetur to be got at eighteen-pence a day for working people, and three-and-six for gentlefolks — night watching,' " said Mrs. Gamp, with emphasis, " ' being a extra charge — you are that inwallable person.
Seite 124 - Their best ; but in the general face I saw No touch of veneration or of awe. Christ's natal day ? 'Twas merely one day more On which the mart agreed to close its door ; A lounging-time by usage and by law Sanctioned ; nor recked they, beyond this, one straw Of any meaning which for man it bore ! Fated among time's fallen leaves to stray, We breathe an air that savours of the tomb, Heavy with dissolution and decay ; Waiting till some new world-emotion rise, And with the shattering might of the simoom...
Seite 167 - Ah!' repeated Mrs Gamp; for it was always a safe sentiment in cases of mourning. 'Ah, dear! When Gamp was summoned to his long home, and I see him a-lying in Guy's Hospital with a pennypiece on each eye, and his wooden leg under his left arm, I thought I should have fainted away. But I bore up.
Seite 42 - But what," said Mr. Swiveller with a sigh, " what is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather...
Seite 161 - em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters, Mrs Harris"'- here she kept her eye on Mr Pecksniff - '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.