Yeast, a problem [by C. Kingsley]. Repr., with corrections and additions from Fraser's magazine1851 |
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Page 330 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things : and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Page 221 - LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor ; thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto : 20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.
Page 190 - There's blood on your new foreign shrubs, squire, There's blood on your pointer's feet ; There's blood on the game you sell, squire, And there's blood on the game you eat.
Page 92 - Was raised by intense pensiveness, . . . two eyes, Two starry eyes hung in the gloom of thought, And seemed with their serene and azure smiles To beckon him.
Page 192 - She looked at the tuft of clover, And wept till her heart grew light ; And at last, when her passion was over, Went wandering into the night. But the merry brown hares came leaping Over the uplands still, Where the clover and corn lay sleeping On the side of the white chalk hill.
Page 190 - ... moonlight stilL Leaping late and early, Till under their bite and their tread The swedes, and the wheat, and the barley, Lay cankered, and trampled and dead. A poacher's widow sat sighing On the side of the white chalk bank, Where under the gloomy fir-woods One spot in the ley throve rank.
Page 192 - Be repaid us by penny-club rules. "In the season of shame and sadness, In the dark and dreary day, When scrofula, gout and madness Are eating your race away; "When to kennels and liveried varlets You have cast your...
Page 332 - Look around you and see what is the characteristic of your country and of your generation at this moment. What a yearning, what an expectation, amid infinite falsehoods and confusions, of some nobler, more chivalrous, more god-like state ! Your very costermonger trolls out his belief that ' there's a good time coming...
Page 369 - The Speeches of Demosthenes against Aphobus and Onetor. Translated, with Notes explanatory of the Athenian Laws and Institutions, by CR KENNEDY, MA, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Post Octavo, 9s.
Page 88 - So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe ; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.