Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An AutobiographyHarper & brothers, 1850 - 371 pagina's |
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Pagina 44
... shilling a day to murder any man , right or wrong - even his own brother or his own father - just because such a whiskered , profligate jackanapes as that officer , without learning , without any god except his own looking - glass and ...
... shilling a day to murder any man , right or wrong - even his own brother or his own father - just because such a whiskered , profligate jackanapes as that officer , without learning , without any god except his own looking - glass and ...
Pagina 59
... shillings on me for luck , " which , I need not say , I peremptorily refused , assuring them that I could and would get my own living , and never take a farthing from any man . 66 ' That's a plucky dog , though he's a tailor , " I heard ...
... shillings on me for luck , " which , I need not say , I peremptorily refused , assuring them that I could and would get my own living , and never take a farthing from any man . 66 ' That's a plucky dog , though he's a tailor , " I heard ...
Pagina 64
... shillings for you - mind At this moment a tall , handsome young man , whom I did not at first recognize as my cousin George , swung into the office , and shook me cordially by the hand . 66 Hullo , Alton , how are you ? Why , I hear you ...
... shillings for you - mind At this moment a tall , handsome young man , whom I did not at first recognize as my cousin George , swung into the office , and shook me cordially by the hand . 66 Hullo , Alton , how are you ? Why , I hear you ...
Pagina 87
... shillings a week , and there was ever so much to take off for fire , and twopence for thread , and fivepence for candles ; and then we were always getting fined , because they never gave us out the work till too late ALTON LOCKE ...
... shillings a week , and there was ever so much to take off for fire , and twopence for thread , and fivepence for candles ; and then we were always getting fined , because they never gave us out the work till too late ALTON LOCKE ...
Pagina 89
... shillings which I possessed , and tried to make the girls take them , for the sake of poor Ellen . " No ; you're a working - man , and we won't feed on you— you'll want it some day - all the trade's going the same way as we , as fast as ...
... shillings which I possessed , and tried to make the girls take them , for the sake of poor Ellen . " No ; you're a working - man , and we won't feed on you— you'll want it some day - all the trade's going the same way as we , as fast as ...
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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.