Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An AutobiographyHarper & brothers, 1850 - 371 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 60
Pagina 8
... seen the shop in the city where I was born and nursed , with its little garrets reeking with human breath , its kitchens and areas with noisome sewers . A sani- tary reformer would not be long in guessing the cause of my unhealthiness ...
... seen the shop in the city where I was born and nursed , with its little garrets reeking with human breath , its kitchens and areas with noisome sewers . A sani- tary reformer would not be long in guessing the cause of my unhealthiness ...
Pagina 13
... seen no reason to change . The confusion between the King of Hell and the King of Heaven has cleared up , thank God , since then ! So I was whipped and put to bed - the whipping altering my secret heart just about as much as the dread ...
... seen no reason to change . The confusion between the King of Hell and the King of Heaven has cleared up , thank God , since then ! So I was whipped and put to bed - the whipping altering my secret heart just about as much as the dread ...
Pagina 19
... seen . I showed the verses in secret to my little sister . My mother heard us singing them together , and extorted , grimly enough , a confession of the authorship . I expected to be punished for them ( I was accustomed weekly to be ...
... seen . I showed the verses in secret to my little sister . My mother heard us singing them together , and extorted , grimly enough , a confession of the authorship . I expected to be punished for them ( I was accustomed weekly to be ...
Pagina 51
... seen the evil of it as much as any man , in myself and in my own class . But there are excuses for such a fault in the working - man . It does sour and madden him to be called presumptuous and ambi- tious for the very same aspirations ...
... seen the evil of it as much as any man , in myself and in my own class . But there are excuses for such a fault in the working - man . It does sour and madden him to be called presumptuous and ambi- tious for the very same aspirations ...
Pagina 62
... seen me safe settled at my studies , he used to disappear mysteriously for several hours , and it was some time before I found out , by a chance ex- pression , that he was attending some meeting or committee of working men . I begged ...
... seen me safe settled at my studies , he used to disappear mysteriously for several hours , and it was some time before I found out , by a chance ex- pression , that he was attending some meeting or committee of working men . I begged ...
Inhoudsopgave
| 7 | |
| 21 | |
| 34 | |
| 51 | |
| 72 | |
| 90 | |
| 118 | |
| 127 | |
| 204 | |
| 220 | |
| 231 | |
| 242 | |
| 260 | |
| 269 | |
| 279 | |
| 290 | |
| 148 | |
| 155 | |
| 163 | |
| 169 | |
| 175 | |
| 186 | |
| 196 | |
| 304 | |
| 310 | |
| 319 | |
| 348 | |
| 354 | |
| 367 | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Alton answered Arabian Nights asked auld beauty believe Billy Porter blessed canna cents CHAPTER Chartist Church Church of England clergy cockney confess cousin Crossthwaite curse dared dear earth eyes face fancy fellow felt gang gentleman gilt edges God's gude hand hear heard heart heaven hope knew labor laddie Lillian live look Lord Lynedale Mackaye mair Mammon maun Mike Kelly mind miserable morning Morocco mother Muslin never night perhaps poems poet poor port wine puir Purgatory of Suicides Puritan queen's counsel recollect rich round Sandy seemed Sheep extra shillings sins slaves smile soul spirit starving stood strange sure tailor talk tell thae there's thing Thomas Carlyle thou thought told true turmits turned voice whole wonder words working-men ye'll young
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.