... heads all in nightcaps, and full of the foolishest dreams. Riot cries aloud, and staggers and swaggers in his rank dens of shame; and the Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten.... The American Monthly Magazine - Seite 5111837Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 522 Seiten
...rank dens of shame; and the 15 " Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid " dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now " moisten. —...nothing but a little carpentry and masonry between "them;—.crammed in, like salted fish, in their barrel; 20 t' or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 536 Seiten
...rank dens of shame; and the 15 " Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid " dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now " moisten.—...nothing but a little carpentry and masonry between "them;—.crammed in, like salted fish, in their barrel; 20 " or weltering, shall I, say, like an Egyptian... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 502 Seiten
...his rank dens of shame; and the Mother, with streaming haii-, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten. —...head above the others: such work goes on under that smokecounterpane ! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the stars." We looked... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1898 - 230 Seiten
...his rank dens of shame ; and the Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten. —...head above the others : such work goes on under that smokecounterpane ! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all ; I am alone with the stars." We looked... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 Seiten
...his rank dens of shame ; and the Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten. —...Vipers, each struggling to get its head above the other : such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane ! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all... | |
| George Claude Lorimer - 1900 - 674 Seiten
...his rank dens of shame ; and the mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid, dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten. All...head above the others ; such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane. To some persons this speech will seem hysterical or over-rhetorical ; for there... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1902 - 264 Seiten
...“hair, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose “cracked lips only her tears now moisten.—All these “heaped and huddled together, with nothing...above the “others: such work goes on under that smoke“counterpane !—But I, mein Went/zen, sit above it “all; I am alone with the Stars.” We... | |
| 1905 - 408 Seiten
...rank dens of shame ; " and the Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over " her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her " tears now moisten. —...above the others : such work goes " on under that smoke-counterpane ! — But I, mein " Werther, sit above it all ; I am alone with the " Stars." Thomas... | |
| Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - 362 Seiten
...in his rank dens of shame; and the Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten. —...head above the others: such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane ! THOMAS CARLYLE. 10. (The agent of a London company at Athens.) He would look over... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 Seiten
...in his rank dens of shame; and the Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten. All...between them: crammed in, like salted fish in their barrels; or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers, each struggling to get... | |
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