 | 1847 - 798 pagini
...coals, or of potatoes. The qnestions of the child, that shoxdd be the very ontponrings of cnriosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy...has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it mnrmnrs ; it is knowing, acnte, sharpened... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 858 pagini
...little girl, a woman of the better sort of poor, in a condition rather above the squalid beings which we have been contemplating. It is not of toys, of...come to be a woman, before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers. It haggles, it envies, it murmurs ; it is knowing, acute, sharpened... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 868 pagini
...little girl, a woman of the better sort of poor, in a condition rather above the squalid beings which we have been contemplating. It is not of toys, of...come to be a woman, before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers. It haggles, it envies, it murmurs ; it is knowing, acute, sharpened... | |
 | 1830 - 456 pagini
...him young again, with recalling his young times. The children of the very poor, have no young times. It has come to be a woman before it was a child. It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, much sharpened,... | |
 | 1833 - 522 pagini
...little girl, a woman of the better sort of poor, in a condition rather above the squalid beings which we have been contemplating. It is not of toys, of...come to be a woman, before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pagini
...the promised sight, or play; of praised sufficiency at school. It is of mangling and clearstarching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions...come to be a woman, before it was a child. It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs ; it is knowing, acute, sharpened;... | |
 | 1833 - 508 pagini
...forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman, before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies,...is knowing, acute, sharpened ; it never prattles. Had we not reason to say, that the home of the very poor is no home ?" It is impossible to find a more... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1834 - 424 pagini
...promised sight, or play ; of praised sufficiency at school. It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions...are marked with forecast and melancholy providence, ft has come to be a woman, before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pagini
...promised sight, or play ; of praised sufficiency at school. It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions...come to be a woman, before it was a child. It has learned to go to market ; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs; it is knowing, acute, sharpened... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pagini
...the promised sight, or play ; of praised sufficiency at school. It is of mangling and clearstarching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions...come to be a woman, — before it was a child. It has learned to go to market; it chaffers, it haggles, it envies, it murmurs ; it is knowing, acute, sharpened... | |
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It is of mangling and clear-starching, of the price of coals, or of potatoes. The questions of the child, that should be the very outpourings of curiosity in idleness, are marked with forecast and melancholy providence. It has come to be a woman before... 
