 | 1834 - 426 pages
...flame, and dark with tossing clouds of smoke through which the lightnings play and glare most awfully.' Speaking of the state of the different classes of...shackled by their expenses ; happy, happy are you, who hold your birth-right in a country where things are different ; you, at least at present, are in... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 590 pages
...classes in England, he remarked — " We are in a dreadful state ; care, like a foul hag, sits upon us all ! one class presses with iron foot upon the...struggle for a worthless supremacy, and all to rise to it more shackled by their expenses. Sir ! things have come to a dreadful pass with us ; we need most deeply... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 564 pages
...Englan'd, he remarked — " We are in a dreadful state ; care, like a foul has;, sifs upon us all 1 one class presses with iron foot upon the wounded...struggle for a worthless supremacy, and all to rise to it more shackled by their expenses. Sir! things have come to a dreadful pass with us; we need most deeply... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 428 pages
...places to be found in our island, notwithstanding the awful truth of what was said by Coleridge, that " Care, like a foul hag, sits on us all; one class presses...for a worthless supremacy, and all, to rise to it, more shackled by their expenses." But these are now few and far between ; and they are certainly "... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 448 pages
...places to be found in our island, notwithstanding the awful truth of what was said by Coleridge, that " Care, like a foul hag, sits on us all; one class presses...for a worthless supremacy, and all, to rise to it, more shackled by their expenses." But these are now few and far between ; and they are certainly "... | |
 | 1838 - 516 pages
...the different classes of England, he remarked, ' We are in a dreadful state ! Care, like a foul bag, sits on us all. One class presses with iron foot upon the wonnded heads beneath, all struggle fora worthless supremacy, and all, in their endeavours to rise... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1840 - 652 pages
...places to be found in our island, notwithstanding the awful truth of what was said by Coleridge, that " Care, like a foul hag, sits on us all; one class presses...all, to rise to it, move shackled by their expenses." But these are now few and far between; and they are certainly "nooks of the world," far from manufacturing... | |
 | Thomas Low Nichols - Human physiology - 1872 - 508 pages
...the conditions of decency and health, the wasting disease, the welcome death. "Care," says Coleridge, "like a foul hag, sits on us all; one class presses...beneath, and all struggle for a worthless supremacy." The first thing to be done for the poverty-stricken masses is to house and clothe them decently —... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1911 - 516 pages
...flame, and dark with tossing clouds of smoke, through which the lightnings play and glare most awfully." Speaking of the state of the different classes of...in a transition state; God grant it may ever be so! Sir, things have come to a dreadful pass with us; we need most deeply a reform, but I fear not the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 566 pages
...classes in England, he remarked — " We are in a dreadful state ; care, like a foul hag, sits upon us all ! one class presses with iron foot upon the...struggle for a worthless supremacy, and all to rise to it more shackled by their expenses. Sir ! things have come lo a dreadful pass with us ; we need most deeply... | |
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Speaking of the state of the different classes of England, he remarked, " We are in a dreadful state. Care, like a foul hag, sits on us all; one class presses with iron foot upon the wounded heads beneath, and all struggle for a worthless supremacy, and... 