The Old Curiosity Shop, Volume 3Gregory, 1861 |
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Abel appeared Augustus George Barbara Barbara's mother Begging-Letter better Bevis Marks bill-sticking bills bless Brass's gentleman brother child Chuckster cribbage cried Brass dead dear Dick door doubt dream dwarf eyes face feel fire French watering-place Fulham Garland gone hand happy head hear heard heart honor hope Kit's mother light little Jacob lived lodger looking Loyal Majesty Marchioness Maria Jane's mind Miss Brass Miss Sally morning never night nodded notary OLD CURIOSITY SHOP once Peckham Rye pony poor pretty Prodgit Quilp replied returned Richard Swiveller round Sampson Brass Sarah seemed ship single gentleman sleep small servant smile speak star stop street sure Swiv tell There's thing thought told Tom Scott took Trafalgar Square turned voice wait walk window Witherden word young
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Page 256 - BREAK, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 256 - But, O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!
Page 83 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Page 244 - Thus the child came to be an old man, and his once smooth face was wrinkled, and his steps were slow and feeble, and his back was bent. And one night as he lay upon his bed, his children standing round, he cried, as he had cried so long ago: — "I see the star!" They whispered one another, "He is dying.
Page 240 - A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR. THEKE was once a child, and he strolled about a good deal and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers ; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky ; they wondered at the depth of the bright water ; they wondered at the goodness and the power of GOD who made the lovely world.
Page 5 - Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
Page 194 - A. whisper went about among the oldest there, that she had seen and talked with angels; and when they called to mind how she had looked, and spoken, and her early death, some thought it might be so, indeed. Thus, coming to the grave in little knots, and glancing down, and giving place to others, and falling off in whispering groups of three or four, the church was cleared in time of all but the sexton and the mourning friends.
Page 256 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back...
Page 117 - Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we ha'n't better company Upon Tyburn Tree!
Page 48 - And this," cried Sampson, clasping his hands, "is the world that turns upon its own axis, and has Lunar influences, and revolutions round Heavenly Bodies, and various games of that sort! This is human natur, is it! Oh natur, natur! This is the miscreant that I was going to benefit witL all my little arts, and that, even now, I feel so much for, as to wish to let him go !