Old curiosity shopChapman and Hall, 1874 |
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Pagina 302 - to be a wax-work child, when you might have the proud consciousness of assisting, to the extent of your infant powers, the manufactures of your country ; of improving your mind by the constant contemplation of the steam-engine ; and of earning a comfortable and independent subsistence of from twoand-ninepence to three shillings per week 1 Don't you know that the harder you are at work, the happier you are ? " " ' How doth the little — ' " murmured one of the teachers, in quotation from Doctor Watts.
Pagina 86 - My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea ; But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's a double health to thee ! Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate ; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may...
Pagina 246 - He was a very young boy ; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright ; but their light was of Heaven, not earth. The schoolmaster took a seat beside him, and stooping over the pillow, whispered his name. The boy...
Pagina 5 - I revolved in my mind a hundred different explanations of the riddle and rejected them every one. I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people ; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Pagina 8 - It always grieves me," I observed, roused by what I took to be his selfishness, "it always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity — two of the best qualities that heaven gives them — and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
Pagina 241 - ... in the very legs of his desk. The puzzled dunce, who stood beside it to say his lesson out of book, looked no longer at the ceiling for forgotten words, but drew closer to the master's elbow and boldly cast his eye upon the page ; the wag of the little troop squinted and made grimaces (at the smallest boy of course), holding no book before his face, and his approving audience knew no constraint in their delight.
Pagina 86 - MARY, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that e'er I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving...
Pagina 241 - But the tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling from his pupils — it was plain.
Pagina 246 - Harry," whispered the schoolmaster, anxious to rouse him, for a dulness seemed gathering upon the child, " and how pleasant it used, to be in the...