Quite Alone: In Three Volumes, Volumen1Chapman and Hall, 1864 |
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Quite Alone [Completed by A.H. Duff] George Augustus H F Sala,Andrew Halliday Duff Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 7 - ; or what the EarthSpirit in Faust names it, the living visible Garment of God: — In Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean; A seizing and giving The fire of Living: 'T is thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by.
Página 128 - Hélas ! soudain tristement il s'écrie : « C'est un drapeau que je ne connais pas. Ah! si jamais vous vengez la patrie, Dieu, mes enfants, vous donne un beau trépas...
Página 6 - All is here — the prologue, the drama, the epilogue; for here is Life. Life from the highest to the lowest rung of the ladder ; not only in earliest youth and extreme old age, in comely virtue and ruddled vice, in wisdom and folly, complacency and discontent ; but — look yonder, far beyond the outer fringe — in utter want and misery. There, under the trees, the ragged woman opens her bundle, and distributes among her callous brood the foul scraps she has begged at area gates, or picked from...
Página 68 - Mars, or from the bowels of the earth, and had said, " It is true that I am a returned convict, a professed forger and coiner, and a monster in human form — that I have a blighted heart and a seared conscience — that I murdered my...
Página 28 - Another lappel to the coat, another curl to the coiffure, another whiff of perfume about him, and the dandy would have been spoiled. As it was, he was as perfect as a man could be with three...
Página 67 - When such hopes were hinted in her presence by the charitableminded among her own sex — the married ladies, bien entendu — Barbara shrugged her pretty shoulders — she was pretty — and sometimes smiled, and sometimes sighed.
Página 127 - Madame, who was a meek brown little woman, usually habited in a chintz bedjacket and a petticoat of blue serge...
Página 115 - Lane, and the patents taken away therefrom, and from Covent Garden too ; commutation of tithes and reform of municipal corporations, charity commissions and the new Poor-law, chartism, trades-unionism and the unknown tongues ; oceans of pamphlets ; new clubs starting up all over the...
Página 57 - Nurse Pigott had purchased .a bar of Castile soap, the which, from its curiously marbled appearance, the child imagined to be sweetstuff, and essayed to suck.
Página 49 - He spoke less in anger than in the languid tone of an Indian Begum telling her slave-girl that really, if she gave her any more trouble, she would be compelled to have her buried alive.