Paul CliffordGeorge Routledge, 1877 - 493 pages |
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Page 135 - ... exceedingly crooked, — the hypocritical scoundrel seized me by the collar, and cried out, ' Your money or your life ! ' I do assure you that I never trembled so much, — not, my dear Miss Lucy, so much for my own sake, as for the sake of the thirty poor families on the common, whose wants it had been my intention to relieve. I gave up the money, finding my prayers and expostulations were in vain; and the dog then, brandishing over my head an enormous bludgeon, said — what abominable language...
Page 406 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 154 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music...
Page 67 - Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Oldham's, though less elegant, is more just : Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, As its exposing men to grinning scorn.
Page 461 - Romans made fasces, — a bundle of rods with an axe in the middle, — mark it, and remember! long may it live, allied with hope in ourselves, but with gratitude in our children, — long after the book which it now "adorns...
Page 15 - IT was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents— except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Page 406 - Of Law, no less can be said, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring...
Page 218 - Why did she love him? Curious fool! — be still — Is human love the growth of human will?
Page 367 - Lucy had (and it was a consolation) clung to the belief that, despite of appearances and his own confession, his past life had not been such as to place him without the pale of her just affections; and there were frequent moments when...
Page 435 - Seven years ago I was sent to the house of correction for an offence which I did not commit. I went thither, a boy who had never infringed a single law ; I came forth, in a few weeks, a man who was prepared to break all laws ! Whence was this change? Was it my fault, or that of my condemners?