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... " Pleasures of Home , " and other poems . At an early age , his father , who had not the means to give him what is termed a liberal education , sent him to the National school at that place . While at this seminary xii MEMOIR .
... " Pleasures of Home , " and other poems . At an early age , his father , who had not the means to give him what is termed a liberal education , sent him to the National school at that place . While at this seminary xii MEMOIR .
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... mean cringing to those of high estate , which still exists to so large an extent in social life . His manner of speech was manly and straightforward . spoke straight on the point ; and it has been said by his friends , more than once ...
... mean cringing to those of high estate , which still exists to so large an extent in social life . His manner of speech was manly and straightforward . spoke straight on the point ; and it has been said by his friends , more than once ...
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... means of causing speedy reformation ; and it is questionable whether any similar writer has used his means so well , and directed his keen yet humorous satire upon such worthy objects and for such worthy purposes . It has been his aim ...
... means of causing speedy reformation ; and it is questionable whether any similar writer has used his means so well , and directed his keen yet humorous satire upon such worthy objects and for such worthy purposes . It has been his aim ...
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... means of lessening that disgraceful class of London pettifoggers , who degrade the profession of the law . He laid bare the corruption of elections - and the bribery , intimi- dation , high influence , unprincipled manoeuvring , and ...
... means of lessening that disgraceful class of London pettifoggers , who degrade the profession of the law . He laid bare the corruption of elections - and the bribery , intimi- dation , high influence , unprincipled manoeuvring , and ...
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... means of forming good " or bad citizens , and miserable or happy men , this class of " schools long afforded a notable example . Although any " man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in " life , was free without ...
... means of forming good " or bad citizens , and miserable or happy men , this class of " schools long afforded a notable example . Although any " man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in " life , was free without ...
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Page 79 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Page 6 - State as a means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, this class of schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted...
Page 102 - Upon her face there was the tint of grief, The settled shadow of an inward strife, And an unquiet drooping of the eye As if its lid were charged with unshed tears.
Page 6 - ... qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chemist, the attorney, the butcher, the baker, the candlestickmaker; the whole round of crafts and trades, the schoolmaster excepted...
Page 120 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 4 - I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.
Page 35 - All that this World is proud of. From their spheres The stars of human glory are cast down ; Perish the roses and the flowers of Kings, Princes, and Emperors, and the crowns and palms Of all the Mighty, withered and consumed ! Nor is power given to lowliest Innocence Long to protect her own.
Page 102 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, But with a hope. — Awaking with a start, The waters heave around me; and on high The winds lift up their voices: I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
Page 133 - ... to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Page 6 - ... from such a state of things, and to flourish in it ; these Yorkshire school-masters were the lowest and most rotten round in the whole ladder. Traders in the avarice, indifference, or imbecility of parents, and the helplessness of children...