Toil and Trial: a Story of London Life: To which are Added The Iron Rule; and A Story of the West EndA. Hall, Virtue, 1849 - 168 Seiten |
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affection Annie better Caroline character Charles Weston cheek child Clara Colonel Laurington companion countenance counting-house cousin dear Denison door employers Etty evil exclaimed eyes fancy father feelings felt Forster fortune Frank Warder George Harris girl hand happiness heard heard a rumour heart Henrietta hope hour husband indulgence Iron Rule Jane Laurington Jasper Rivers kiss knew lady little Ellen Liverpool Lizzy Lizzy's London look Lorrimer Madame Dobière mamma manner marriage Maxwell Messrs milliner mind minutes Miriam Lowe morning mother murmured never night pain parents passed pause perhaps poor replied returned round scarcely seemed selfish servant sister soon sorrow soul stairs street suffering Sunday sure sympathy tears tell thing thought thousand pounds Toil and Trial told Trong's truth voice Walter WEST END wife William Morton Willow-dale wonder words YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young
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Seite 117 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Seite 1 - For them the Ceylon diver held his breath, And went all naked to the hungry shark; For them his ears gush'd blood; for them in death The seal on the cold ice with piteous bark Lay full of darts; for them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark : Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel.
Seite 145 - And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men...
Seite 59 - ... assurance Of the Godhead hid in Man. Trust me, Truth is still at war, Just as in the hard old time, With a thousand things that are — Births of woe and food for crime : Still to vindicate the right Is a rough and thankless game ; Still the leader in the fight Is the hindmost in the fame. True, the penal fires are out — True, the rack in rust has lain — But the secret burning Doubt And the pangs of Thought remain : True, the mind of Man is free — Free to speak and write at will, But a...
Seite 74 - but even now Thy voice was at sweet tremble in mine ear, Made tuneable with every sweetest vow; And those sad eyes were spiritual and clear: How chang'd thou art! how pallid, chill, and drear! Give me that voice again, my Porphyro, Those looks immortal, those complainings, dear! Oh leave me not in this eternal woe, For if thou diest, my Love, I know not where to go.
Seite 68 - No dread of toil have we or ours ; We know our worth, and weigh our powers ; The more we work the more we win-:; Success to Trade ! Success to Spade ! And to the Corn that's coming in! And joy to him, who o'er his task Remembers toil is Nature's plan ; Who, working, thinks — And never sinks His independence as a man.
Seite 8 - Give us Corn where'er it grow!" These, and other cries, around me Surged incessant, loud or low. Old opinions jarr'd with new ones; New ones jostled with the old; In such Babel, few were able To distinguish truth from fable, In the tale their neighbours told. But one voice above all others Sounded like the voice of ten, Clear, sonorous, and persuasive:— "Give us Justice! we are men!
Seite 167 - We know the truth — the very truth — 'tis best we part — you cannot be my wife. / have never thought of you as my wife." Henrietta shrank — slipped from his arms. " Saved — saved !" she murmured, in a choking voice; " Oh God, I thank Thee!" " Amen !'' responded her cousin. My simple story is almost done. Simple I may well call it ; for such heroines as mine measure life by the inner world of the feelings, not by moving accidents or romantic adventures. Henrietta has been three years in...
Seite 158 - I don't know — the time is so very short — if I had only had it yesterday " " Oh ! very well," returned the lady — " I would not be disappointed on any account. And I have no doubt Mrs. P can make it up for me ; in fact, I have been very particularly recommended to try her." " Well, ma'am," interrupted Madame Dobiere, dreading that her rival would take away a customer, " to oblige you, ma'am, I will undertake it — but I assure you we must work half the night.
Seite 147 - MACBETH. THERE is a certain spot in one of the midland counties, which, for the sake of preserving its incognito, I will call Willow-dale. It is but three or four miles from a market town, yet lying away from the high road, and being still farther removed from any railroad, is about as secluded a place as any in England. Yet beautiful exceedingly is its rich meadow land ; and pleasant to view the varied beauty of its flowering, fruitful orchards; and pure the health-giving breezes that come from...