Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An AutobiographyMacmillan, 1876 - 309 oldal |
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lxiii. oldal
... starvation , waste of life , year - long imprisonment in dungeons narrower and fouler than those of the Inquisi- tion , which goes on among thousands of free English clothes - makers at this day ? “ The man is mad , " says Mammon ...
... starvation , waste of life , year - long imprisonment in dungeons narrower and fouler than those of the Inquisi- tion , which goes on among thousands of free English clothes - makers at this day ? “ The man is mad , " says Mammon ...
lxvii. oldal
... starved the men ; the smallest cater there would not have had enough if he had got three times as much . They had only three thin_slices of bread and butter , not sufficient for a child , and the tea was both weak and bad . The whole ...
... starved the men ; the smallest cater there would not have had enough if he had got three times as much . They had only three thin_slices of bread and butter , not sufficient for a child , and the tea was both weak and bad . The whole ...
lxviii. oldal
... starved - out and sweated - out . tailor's last resource . But still , government does not do the regular trade so much harm as the cheap show and slop shops . These houses have ruined thousands . They have cut down the prices , so that ...
... starved - out and sweated - out . tailor's last resource . But still , government does not do the regular trade so much harm as the cheap show and slop shops . These houses have ruined thousands . They have cut down the prices , so that ...
lxxi. oldal
... starved , often unable to make their escape for months -perhaps years ; and then only fleeing from one dungeon to another as abominable . " In the meantime , the profits of the beasts of prey who live on these poor fellows - both ...
... starved , often unable to make their escape for months -perhaps years ; and then only fleeing from one dungeon to another as abominable . " In the meantime , the profits of the beasts of prey who live on these poor fellows - both ...
lxxiv. oldal
... starvation price they paid for their work , as a proof that the workpeople engaged on their estab- lishment received the full prices ; whereas , of that 36s . entered against my name , I should have had to pay 248 . to those who ...
... starvation price they paid for their work , as a proof that the workpeople engaged on their estab- lishment received the full prices ; whereas , of that 36s . entered against my name , I should have had to pay 248 . to those who ...
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236. oldal - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
287. oldal - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
21. oldal - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
287. oldal - They will not be learned nor understand, but walk on still in darkness : all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 6 I have said, Ye are gods : and ye are all the children of the most Highest.
306. oldal - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
192. oldal - The Western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land; And never home came she.
xxvi. oldal - Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:* And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
257. oldal - But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho' the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil.
280. oldal - THERE is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro...
192. oldal - They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea: But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee.