Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An AutobiographyHarper & brothers, 1850 - 371 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... felt . Now and then , believing , in obedience to my mother's assurances , and the solemn prayers of the ministers about me , that I was a child of hell , and a lost and miserable sinner , I used to have ac- cesses of terror , and fancy ...
... felt . Now and then , believing , in obedience to my mother's assurances , and the solemn prayers of the ministers about me , that I was a child of hell , and a lost and miserable sinner , I used to have ac- cesses of terror , and fancy ...
Pagina 28
... felt myself in a most distracted , rudderless state . My mother's advice I felt daily less and less inclined to ask . A gulf was opening between us : we were moving in two different worlds , and she saw it , and imputed it to me as a ...
... felt myself in a most distracted , rudderless state . My mother's advice I felt daily less and less inclined to ask . A gulf was opening between us : we were moving in two different worlds , and she saw it , and imputed it to me as a ...
Pagina 29
... felt inclined to take them at their word , and behave like one . No sympathizing face looked on me out of the wide heaven - off the wide earth , none . I was all boiling with new hopes , new temptations , new passions , new sorrows ...
... felt inclined to take them at their word , and behave like one . No sympathizing face looked on me out of the wide heaven - off the wide earth , none . I was all boiling with new hopes , new temptations , new passions , new sorrows ...
Pagina 35
... felt myself quite a learned man - actually the possessor of a Latin book ! I regarded as something almost miraculous the opening of this new field for my ambition . Not that I was consciously , much less selfishly , ambitious . I had no ...
... felt myself quite a learned man - actually the possessor of a Latin book ! I regarded as something almost miraculous the opening of this new field for my ambition . Not that I was consciously , much less selfishly , ambitious . I had no ...
Pagina 37
... felt as if one direct false- hood would ruin for ever my fast - failing self - respect , and I told her the whole truth . She took the book and left the room . It was Saturday morning , and I spent two miserable days , for she never ...
... felt as if one direct false- hood would ruin for ever my fast - failing self - respect , and I told her the whole truth . She took the book and left the room . It was Saturday morning , and I spent two miserable days , for she never ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 283 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Pagina 29 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Pagina 344 - They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness : all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods : and ye are all the children of the most Highest.
Pagina 229 - Dee.' They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home, Across the sands o
Pagina 344 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Pagina 368 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Pagina 229 - The Western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land; And never home came she.