 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...day of misery to add to the heap. 17. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down — shook...the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn. LESSON LIV. Alcander and Septimius. — GOLDSMITH. 1. ALCANDER and Septimius were two Athenian students,... | |
 | 1839 - 418 Seiten
...another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his...head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard the chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle." It is so... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1839 - 420 Seiten
...another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his...head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard the chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle." It is so... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 Seiten
...another day of mi-cry to add (o the heap. As I darkened the little light he bad, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and then went on with his work of affliction. I heard the chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to... | |
 | 1831 - 446 Seiten
...heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the dour, then custit down — shook his head, and went on with his work...upon his legs as he turned his body to lay his little stirk upon the bundle — hegave a deep sigh — I saw the iron enter his soul — I burst into tears... | |
 | 1857 - 560 Seiten
...the second edition of the Times— he gave a deep sigh — I saw the iron of the Civil Service enter his soul — I burst into tears — I could not sustain...picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn— I started up from my chair, and calling the servant, bade her order me a cab for the Dover Station,... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1842 - 320 Seiten
...auditory, which always revives captive : ' As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his...little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh. f saw the iron enter into his soul.' It would be easy to adduce many other instances in which a writer... | |
 | Antoine Alexandre Boniface - 1842 - 224 Seiten
...had, he lifted up a hopeless eye toward the door, then cast it down—shook his head, and went on (2) with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his hody to lay his little stick upon the hundle.—He gave a deep sigh (3)—I saw the iron enter Into... | |
 | 1854 - 444 Seiten
...darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his...bundle. He gave a deep sigh — I saw the iron enter his soul." There are in this sketch, only four, or at most, five intensifying epithets : " dismal days,"... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless t to public favour and applause. The English reader...Chaucer ere he could find so knightly and chivalrous a »tick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears... | |
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... head, notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed there : — he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he... 
