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Pagina 18
... sure , amply supply the means of living in the lonely and inexpen- sive style I intended to adhere to . I had a strange predilection for Yorkshire as a place of abode . No one knew me there . I was nervous and weak , and the bracing air ...
... sure , amply supply the means of living in the lonely and inexpen- sive style I intended to adhere to . I had a strange predilection for Yorkshire as a place of abode . No one knew me there . I was nervous and weak , and the bracing air ...
Pagina 22
... sure you know him , mistress ? " " O yes , I know him too well , it's poor Mr. Lister , " said Mrs. Dent , in a tone of distress . " Can it be possible he's done it with his own hand ? " Again Mrs. Dent , scrutinized the features of the ...
... sure you know him , mistress ? " " O yes , I know him too well , it's poor Mr. Lister , " said Mrs. Dent , in a tone of distress . " Can it be possible he's done it with his own hand ? " Again Mrs. Dent , scrutinized the features of the ...
Pagina 23
... sure you'd never turn the poor man from your door . " " Dear , dear , " moaned Mrs. Dent , " " what shall we do ? Shall we send for his poor wife at once , or wait till the doctor comes ? ' , " Better wait I think , " replied the man ...
... sure you'd never turn the poor man from your door . " " Dear , dear , " moaned Mrs. Dent , " " what shall we do ? Shall we send for his poor wife at once , or wait till the doctor comes ? ' , " Better wait I think , " replied the man ...
Pagina 26
... sure she was loving and gentle , yet to spend half - an - hour with her would fully convince you that Mary was not . to be trifled with , and that when her mind was once " made up " on any subject , it would be no easy matter to induce ...
... sure she was loving and gentle , yet to spend half - an - hour with her would fully convince you that Mary was not . to be trifled with , and that when her mind was once " made up " on any subject , it would be no easy matter to induce ...
Pagina 36
... sure that some extraordinary occurrence had taken place . I could no longer rest , much less attempt to sleep , so , hurrying on a dressing- gown , I went down - stairs , hoping to make good my warrant for thus breaking rule . I was ...
... sure that some extraordinary occurrence had taken place . I could no longer rest , much less attempt to sleep , so , hurrying on a dressing- gown , I went down - stairs , hoping to make good my warrant for thus breaking rule . I was ...
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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.