The Romany Rye: A Sequel to "Lavengro", Том 1John Murray, 1857 - 375 страници |
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Страница 98 - Lo ! He comes ; with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain ; Thousand thousand saints attending Swell the triumph of His train ; Hallelujah! God appears on earth to reign. 2 Every eye shall now behold Him Robed in dreadful majesty; Those who set at nought and sold Him, Pierced, and nailed Him to the tree, Deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see.
Страница 205 - Bible in that, young man : see how Moses feared God, and how he took his own part against everybody who meddled with him. And see how David feared God, and took his own part against all the bloody enemies which surrounded him — so fear God, young man, and never give in ! The world can bully, and is fond, provided it sees a man in a kind of difficulty, of getting about him, calling him coarse names, and even going so far as to hustle him : but the world, like all bullies, carries a white feather...
Страница 301 - Heaven ! — was not iar distant. Let the craven dastards who used to curry favour with them, and applaud their brutality, lament their loss now that they and their vehicles have disappeared from the roads ; I, who have ever been an enemy to insolence, cruelty, and tyranny, loathe their memory, and, what is more, am not afraid to say so, well aware of the storm of vituperation, partly learnt from them, which I may expect from those who used to fall down and worship them. Amongst the coachmen who...
Страница 354 - is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life of man...
Страница 356 - Why, there is not a chapter in the present book which is not full of adventures, with the exception of the present one, and this is not yet terminated.
Страница 206 - After reading the letter I sat for some time motionless, holding it in my hand. The daydream in which I had been a little time before indulging, of marrying Isopel Berners, of going with her to America and having by her a large progeny, who were to assist me in felling trees, cultivating the soil, and who would take care of me when I was old, was now thoroughly dispelled. Isopel had deserted me, and was gone to America by herself, where, perhaps, she would marry some other person, and would bear...
Страница 83 - We go to the house of the poison monger,* where we buy three pennies' worth of bane, and when we return to our people we say, we will poison the porker ; we will try and poison the porker. We then make up the poison, and then we take our * The apothecary.
Страница 199 - Here's the letter, young man, and I hope you will pay for it; for if you do not I must pay the postage myself." "You are the postwoman, I suppose," said I, as I took the letter. "I am the postman's mother...
Страница 182 - and to oblige you, I will say siriem." "Very well indeed, Belle," said I. "No vartabied, or doctor, could have pronounced it better; and now, to show you how verbs act upon pronouns in Armenian, I will say siriem zkiez. Please to repeat siriem zkiez!" "Siriem zkiez!" said Belle; "that last word is very hard to say." "Sorry that you think so, Belle,
Страница 51 - Newgate Lives and Trials,' but without the slightest idea that it was the name of him who was sitting with us ; he, however, thought that I was aware of his name. Belle ! Belle ! for a long time I doubted in the truth of Scripture, owing to certain conceited discourses which I had heard from certain conceited individuals, but now I begin to believe firmly ; what wonderful texts there are in Scripture, Belle ! ' The wicked trembleth where — where ....'" " ' They were afraid where no fear was ; thou...