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Pagina 24
... carried the dying one there , listening painfully for the doctor's coming , and every moment expecting to see the last struggle , or to hear the rattling breath that often bespeaks dissolution . Welcome was the sound of feet on the ...
... carried the dying one there , listening painfully for the doctor's coming , and every moment expecting to see the last struggle , or to hear the rattling breath that often bespeaks dissolution . Welcome was the sound of feet on the ...
Pagina 29
... carried into execution , and was found on the lonely highway in the condition already described . And it was to hear news so terrible that Mary Lister and her mother watched and waited on that peaceful autumn night ! More than once Mary ...
... carried into execution , and was found on the lonely highway in the condition already described . And it was to hear news so terrible that Mary Lister and her mother watched and waited on that peaceful autumn night ! More than once Mary ...
Pagina 37
... carried in as one dead now recurred to my mind ! And I could not rid myself of the fear that some such terrible scene was to be witnessed by my friends . In vain I tried to banish the thought , or to distract it by attention to little ...
... carried in as one dead now recurred to my mind ! And I could not rid myself of the fear that some such terrible scene was to be witnessed by my friends . In vain I tried to banish the thought , or to distract it by attention to little ...
Pagina 42
... carried out , but scarcely dared to express my wish lest it should appear presumptuous . " You have to pay for lodgings I suppose , Fanny ? " she said one evening , as we thus sat talking together “ Would you not as soon pay us as any ...
... carried out , but scarcely dared to express my wish lest it should appear presumptuous . " You have to pay for lodgings I suppose , Fanny ? " she said one evening , as we thus sat talking together “ Would you not as soon pay us as any ...
Pagina 58
... carried in her bosom , " is it that you have ceased to love me that you no longer write to me ? I have asked you not to call me brother , because I long for a more endearing name even than that . Will you bestow it upon me ? Will you ...
... carried in her bosom , " is it that you have ceased to love me that you no longer write to me ? I have asked you not to call me brother , because I long for a more endearing name even than that . Will you bestow it upon me ? Will you ...
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abstinence anguish asked beauty believe better boys called cause child comfort Cottage darling dear Mary dearest death delight distress dreadful drink drunkard earnest Edinburgh Ellen evil exclaimed eyes face Fairfield Fanny father fear feel felt Frank Hamer Frederick Kelly gentle GERALD MASSEY girl glass grief hand happy Harry Mills heard heart hope husband intemperance intoxicated JOHN HEYWOOD Kelly kind knew lady Laura little Allie look Maister Lister Mary Lister Mary's matter mind misery Miss Lister mother mysen Nelly never Newburn night once passed perhaps pleasant pleasure poor present promise regarded replied Robert Turner seemed shewed society soon sorrow suffer sure Susan Susy sweet teetotal teetotaller tell temperance Temperance Band tender thing thought told tone took trembling truth Walter wife William Lister wine wish words Yorkshire young youth
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Pagina 79 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Pagina 132 - Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth! Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
Pagina 356 - I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Pagina 38 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Pagina 61 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence. But health consists with temperance alone : And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Pagina 143 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines, And strongest drinks, our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook ! Sams.
Pagina 110 - Beauty is my Love, Yet in her earnest face There's such a world of tenderness, She needs no other grace.
Pagina 132 - Men make resolves, and pass into decrees The motions of the mind! with how much ease, In such resolves, doth passion make a flaw, And bring to nothing what was raised to law! In empire young, scarce warm on Gotham's throne, The dangers and the sweets of...
Pagina 192 - Hail, social life ! into thy pleasing bounds Again I come to pay the common stock, My share of service, and, in glad return, To taste thy comforts, thy protected joys.
Pagina 324 - Good men have said That sometimes God leaves sinners to their sin,— He has left me to mine, and I am changed; My worst part is insurgent, and my will Is weak .and powerless as a trembling king When millions rise up hungry.