The Sister of Charity; Or, From Bermondsey to Belgravia, Volume 1;Volume 237Richard Bentley, 1857 |
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Pagina 2
... passed the woman without noticing her ; but , pulling him by the sleeve , and drawing him beneath the light of the street - lamp , she looked , with a wild smile , into his face , and showed him the little pieces of silver in her hand ...
... passed the woman without noticing her ; but , pulling him by the sleeve , and drawing him beneath the light of the street - lamp , she looked , with a wild smile , into his face , and showed him the little pieces of silver in her hand ...
Pagina 11
... passed over his pale , wan face at the touch and sight of the gold ; a sigh , as of relief , escaped him ; and then , he exclaimed : " Thank Heaven ! for his sake and her's . " In another minute , he passed round the corner , into a bye ...
... passed over his pale , wan face at the touch and sight of the gold ; a sigh , as of relief , escaped him ; and then , he exclaimed : " Thank Heaven ! for his sake and her's . " In another minute , he passed round the corner , into a bye ...
Pagina 16
... passed slowly away , thread- ing his path as carefully as the slippery ground would permit , lest his foot should trample on what he , at least , deemed sacred . The grave by which he had just wept was newly made , or the shifting ...
... passed slowly away , thread- ing his path as carefully as the slippery ground would permit , lest his foot should trample on what he , at least , deemed sacred . The grave by which he had just wept was newly made , or the shifting ...
Pagina 22
... passed . In the room above , a very small , square , and barely furnished room , sat a young girl . By the solitary candle on the one deal table , it was evident she was of a different class to the place , and not in harmony with the ...
... passed . In the room above , a very small , square , and barely furnished room , sat a young girl . By the solitary candle on the one deal table , it was evident she was of a different class to the place , and not in harmony with the ...
Pagina 24
... passed , during which severe physical privation had been their mutual lot . Oh ! thou who dwellest in luxury , whose palate is pampered , whose appetite is provoked by gastrono- mic piquancy , walk into some of the byeways of the great ...
... passed , during which severe physical privation had been their mutual lot . Oh ! thou who dwellest in luxury , whose palate is pampered , whose appetite is provoked by gastrono- mic piquancy , walk into some of the byeways of the great ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Amy Lyle Anglo-Indian answered Beatrice artist asked Beatrice Lester beautiful behold Belgrave Square Belgravia believe beneath Bermondsey better brow Captain Villars cause Chartist cheek child cival companion Crystal Palace dark dear Amy deep door Duchess of Ayrton earnest ejaculated Eustace Neville evidently evil exclaimed eyes face faith fancy fear flowers flunkeyism gentle girl glance grace hair hand happy head heard heart honour hope Kaffir lady laugh light little Duchess London look Lord Dalhousie Major Percival memory Miss Lester mother never night observation painful pale passed pause peculiar perhaps poor Ragged School remember replied scarcely scene seemed Seymour shew side silent smile sorrow standing stood strange stranger suddenly suffering sympathy tears tell things thought tion tone truth turning uncon unconscious utter voice woman words young youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 123 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them ? To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep...
Pagina 180 - Praise ye him, sun, and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.
Pagina 179 - Praise him, all ye heavens : and ye waters that are above the heavens. Let them praise the Name of the Lord : for he spake the word, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.
Pagina 94 - In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
Pagina 202 - Gleam forthwith their dower-thoughts — emerald and golden Where many a light-leaving angel hath trod. Then lovingly mingle these flower*, my brother—- The gold of the lily and green of our land— For, oh ! while they aid us in hating each other, Far better our isle were a desert of sand. II. Oh ! say not ye deem that the God of Creation Had love in his heart, when he lighted this world With beauties like these, if the soul of a nation Must groan at each glimpse of their glory unfurled ; Nor...
Pagina 95 - ... umbrella, or a genteel brown cane. The general frame and air were feeble and slender. The wildest boy respected Black. No lad could be irreverent towards a man so pale, so gentle, so elegant, and so illustrious. So he glided, like a spirit, through our rather mischievous sportiveness, unharmed. He died seated, with a bowl of milk on his knee, of which his ceasing to live did not spill a drop ; a departure which it seemed, after the event happened, might have been foretold of this attenuated philosophical...
Pagina 151 - He who walks humbly with Nature will seldom be in danger of losing sight of Art. He will commonly find in all that is truly great of man's works, something of...
Pagina 350 - END OF VOL. I. LONDON : Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.
Pagina 80 - Pray learn to understand how all work has in it a spiritual element ; how the meanest thing on earth has a divine side ; how all temporary forms include essences that are to be eternal. Whatever be the meanness of a man's occupation, he may discharge and prosecute it on principles common to him with Michael, or Gabriel, or any of the highest spirits of heaven.
Pagina 13 - I can conceive a time when the world shall be Much better visibly, and when, as far As social life and its relations tend, Men, morals, manners shall be lifted up To a pure height we know not of nor dream ; — When all men's rights and duties shall be clear, And charitably exercised and borne ; When education, conscience, and good deeds Shall have just equal sway, and civil claims ; — Great crimes shall be cast out, as were of old Devils possessing madmen : — Truth shall reign, Nature shall...