Chambers's Edinburgh JournalWilliam Orr, 1844 |
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... live out unless she chooses . She's got a comfortable home , and no thanks to nobody . What wages do they give ? " " A dollar a week . " " Eat at the table ? " Oh , certainly . " " Have Sundays ? " Why , no ; I believe not the whole of ...
... live out unless she chooses . She's got a comfortable home , and no thanks to nobody . What wages do they give ? " " A dollar a week . " " Eat at the table ? " Oh , certainly . " " Have Sundays ? " Why , no ; I believe not the whole of ...
Page 13
... lives attempt . At last the man entered as before , and agair -were they only subjected for a short time to live and he asked and obtained leave to light his pipe ; " but labour with the poor ! The lady , for instance , who again the ...
... lives attempt . At last the man entered as before , and agair -were they only subjected for a short time to live and he asked and obtained leave to light his pipe ; " but labour with the poor ! The lady , for instance , who again the ...
Page 31
... live and work in the country , and are a fine healthy set : they are 30 in number : there are 10 apprentices . They can all read and write . They are better educated , and live longer than other work- men , with the exception of the saw ...
... live and work in the country , and are a fine healthy set : they are 30 in number : there are 10 apprentices . They can all read and write . They are better educated , and live longer than other work- men , with the exception of the saw ...
Page 70
... live to endure ! ' ' Stuff ! ' murmured the provoked gentleman , drawing on his gloves , and marching out of the room . Mrs Smith poised her spoon over her cup of choco- late . He will hardly go , ' she thought , without saying good ...
... live to endure ! ' ' Stuff ! ' murmured the provoked gentleman , drawing on his gloves , and marching out of the room . Mrs Smith poised her spoon over her cup of choco- late . He will hardly go , ' she thought , without saying good ...
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... live at Walton - on- Thames , waiting a government appointment which had been promised him . Even if this hope had been realised , it was doubtful if health equal to the duty now remained to him . His condition at this period , as ...
... live at Walton - on- Thames , waiting a government appointment which had been promised him . Even if this hope had been realised , it was doubtful if health equal to the duty now remained to him . His condition at this period , as ...
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Page 222 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 47 - Work ! work ! work ! from weary chime to chime ; work ! work ! work ! as prisoners work for crime. Band, and gusset, and seam ; seam, and gusset, and band ; till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, as well as the weary hand.
Page 47 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Page 222 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 47 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread — Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, Would that its tone could reach the rich ! She sang this "Song of the Shirt.
Page 217 - Remains," it is remarked, that "there is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books, no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other.
Page 254 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 204 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 82 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 47 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!