The Peerage of Poverty: Or, Learners and Workers in Fields, Farms, and FactoriesS. W. Partridge, 1870 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... Early Death - An Affecting Letter -Epitaph- " Auld Aisle Burying - ground " -The Luggie Illustrative Extracts - Sonnets in the Sha- dows - Estimate of Gray CHAPTER XIX . INDUSTRY AND SONG . • Song Consecrates Labour - Allan Cunningham ...
... Early Death - An Affecting Letter -Epitaph- " Auld Aisle Burying - ground " -The Luggie Illustrative Extracts - Sonnets in the Sha- dows - Estimate of Gray CHAPTER XIX . INDUSTRY AND SONG . • Song Consecrates Labour - Allan Cunningham ...
Pagina viii
... Early Readings - On the Continent -Night in a Workhouse - Pen and Press - A Lover of Nature - Thom the Weaver - A Picture of Misery -How Jeannie Died - Flute Playing - Estimate of Thom - Brothers Bethune - Stonebreaking - Poetry ...
... Early Readings - On the Continent -Night in a Workhouse - Pen and Press - A Lover of Nature - Thom the Weaver - A Picture of Misery -How Jeannie Died - Flute Playing - Estimate of Thom - Brothers Bethune - Stonebreaking - Poetry ...
Pagina 7
... earliest and most illustrious painters of Italy , then old and in the full possession of his fame , was striding through a valley about fourteen miles from Florence ; he was attracted to a shepherd lad amidst his surrounding sheep ; the ...
... earliest and most illustrious painters of Italy , then old and in the full possession of his fame , was striding through a valley about fourteen miles from Florence ; he was attracted to a shepherd lad amidst his surrounding sheep ; the ...
Pagina 9
... earliest days of the great astronomer were alternated by a few lessons at the school , where he was taught gratis , and the rustic avocations of tending the cattle or driving the plough . Poor always , in his life of study he was able ...
... earliest days of the great astronomer were alternated by a few lessons at the school , where he was taught gratis , and the rustic avocations of tending the cattle or driving the plough . Poor always , in his life of study he was able ...
Pagina 10
... early struggles from his low obscure origin and help- less poverty , and through all his life , his fortune , if it surrounded him , seemed to give to his matchless genius additional strength , a more subtle power of harmony , seemed to ...
... early struggles from his low obscure origin and help- less poverty , and through all his life , his fortune , if it surrounded him , seemed to give to his matchless genius additional strength , a more subtle power of harmony , seemed to ...
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Albert Durer auld beautiful became beneath bird born character cloth colours Corn Laws cottage Crown 8vo dark David Gray Earl Fitzwilliam earth Ebenezer Elliott eminent England fancy Faraday father feeling fire flowers forest genius give Goddess of Poverty hand happy heart heaven Helpston honour human humble Illustrations JAMES HOGG John Clare labour learned light live London look Lord lowly Market Deeping master memory mind morning mother mountains Nature never Nicoll night noble Northamptonshire o'er Palissy passed peasant poems poet poetry poor poor Clare PURGATORY OF SUICIDES Radstock reader Robert Nicoll SAMUEL DREW says scarcely scenery scenes Scotland seems shepherd shine sing song soul spirit strong sweet taste thee things thou thought tion toil trees truth verses village walk wild wonderful words write young
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Pagina 402 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Pagina 121 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher, too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge.
Pagina 151 - Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel ? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
Pagina 262 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Pagina 282 - Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Pagina 359 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought ! ENDYMION.
Pagina 289 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Pagina 361 - COME, see the Dolphin's anchor forged! 'tis at a white heat now — The bellows ceased, the flames decreased; though, on the forge's brow, The little flames still fitfully play through the sable mound. And fitfully you still may see the grim smiths ranking round; All clad in leathern panoply, their broad hands only bare. Some rest upon their sledges here, some work the windlass there.
Pagina 46 - I AM ! yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes...
Pagina 396 - Dutch settlement, was not, as might have been expected, in the best order; the apartment had not been regularly ventilated, and, either from this circumstance, or already affected by the fatal sickness peculiar to Batavia, Leyden, when he left the place, had a fit of shivering, and declared the atmosphere was enough to give any mortal a fever. The presage was too just; he took his bed, and died in three days, on the eve of the battle which gave Java to the British empire.