All the Year Round, Volume 10

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Charles Dickens, 1864
 

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Pagina 93 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Pagina 225 - I have seen a dreadful vision since I saw you: I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms : this I have seen since I saw you.
Pagina 57 - Lord, how many things are there in this world of which Diogenes hath no need ! " And truly it is so, or might be so, with very many who vex and toil themselves to get what they have no need of.
Pagina 392 - Here's a health to them that's awa', Here's a health to them that's awa' ; Here's a health to Tammie, the Norlan' laddie, That lives at the lug o
Pagina 57 - And when the timorous trout I wait To take, and he devours my bait, How poor a thing, sometimes I find, Will captivate a greedy mind; And when none bite, I praise the wise Whom vain allurements ne'er surprise.
Pagina 361 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Pagina 155 - I am every moment threatened to be turned out here, because I have not money to pay for my bed two nights past, which is usually paid before-hand, and I am loth to go into the Compter 'till I...
Pagina 153 - William show'd his lamp-black face : The morn was cold, he views with keen desire, The rusty grate, unconscious of a fire ; With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scor'd, And five crack'd tea-cups dress'd the chimney board. A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day ! " With this last line he seemed so much elated, that he was unable to proceed.
Pagina 138 - Tringse coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. High over all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention.
Pagina 386 - And tears bedewed those wizened cheeks, tears of penitence, sincere, at least for the time. A sleepy languor now came over him, and the good book fell from his hand : but his resolution remained unshaken ; by-and-by waking up from a sort of heavy doze he took, as it were, a last look at the receipt, and murmured, " My head, how heavy it feels...

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