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Page 181
... natur . - Come , let's go home , my pipe is finished , and as there's nothing to be done on the river , we may just as well make all tidy there . " Stapleton had lost his wife ; but he had a daughter , fifteen years old , who kept his ...
... natur . - Come , let's go home , my pipe is finished , and as there's nothing to be done on the river , we may just as well make all tidy there . " Stapleton had lost his wife ; but he had a daughter , fifteen years old , who kept his ...
Page 190
... natur ; but what you are to do , Jacob , I can't tell . " " Oh ! he will teach me to read and write , " replied Mary . " I don't know that he shall , " replied Stapleton . " What's the use of reading and writing to you ? We've too many ...
... natur ; but what you are to do , Jacob , I can't tell . " " Oh ! he will teach me to read and write , " replied Mary . " I don't know that he shall , " replied Stapleton . " What's the use of reading and writing to you ? We've too many ...
Page 192
... natur . " Here Stapleton paused , and took three whiffs of his pipe . " I recollects when I was a little brat about two foot nothing , mother used to whack me all day long , and I used to cry in proportion . Father used to cry shame ...
... natur . " Here Stapleton paused , and took three whiffs of his pipe . " I recollects when I was a little brat about two foot nothing , mother used to whack me all day long , and I used to cry in proportion . Father used to cry shame ...
Page 193
... natur . [ Puff , puff , puff . ] Father and mother lived in a cellar ; mother sold coals and ' tatoes , and father used to go out to work in the barges on the river . As soon as I was old enough , the schoolmissus sent word that I ought ...
... natur . [ Puff , puff , puff . ] Father and mother lived in a cellar ; mother sold coals and ' tatoes , and father used to go out to work in the barges on the river . As soon as I was old enough , the schoolmissus sent word that I ought ...
Page 194
... natur , when you likes a thing ; but I never got into no trouble until one day I sees my missus a kissing in the back parlour with a fellow who travels for orders . I never said nothing at first ; but at last I sees too much , and then ...
... natur , when you likes a thing ; but I never got into no trouble until one day I sees my missus a kissing in the back parlour with a fellow who travels for orders . I never said nothing at first ; but at last I sees too much , and then ...
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Page 116 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys, While, like the eagle free, Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind!
Page 68 - No glory I covet ! no riches I want ! Ambition is nothing to me ! The one thing I beg of kind Heaven to grant, Is a mind independent and free.
Page 96 - Then are they glad, because they are at rest : and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.
Page 85 - That you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul...
Page 246 - By Jove, I am not covetous of gold : Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear : Such outward things dwell not in my desires : But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Page 256 - I to myself, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
Page 122 - COME o'er the sea, Maiden, with me, Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows ; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Page 245 - Away, Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate : This is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips : We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns, And pass them current, too.
Page 230 - Though he win the wise, who frown'd before, To smile at last ; He'll never meet A joy so sweet, In all his noon of fame, As when first he sung to woman's ear His soul-felt flame, And, at every close, she blush'd to hear The one loved name.
Page 245 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.