They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread ; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labour,... Hell Before Death - Page 40by William Shuler Harris - 1908 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1852 - 950 pages
...Iu velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while wo are covered with rags. They have wins and spices and fair bread; and we oatcake and straw. and water to drink. They have leisure and tine houses, wo have pain and labour, the rain and the winds and the fields, and yet it is of us and... | |
| John Richard Green - 1874 - 1080 pages
...toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their firs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have...They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold... | |
| John Richard Green - 1877 - 630 pages
...spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while wo are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and...They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold... | |
| John Richard Green - 1878 - 622 pages
...spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, Avhile we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices...They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold... | |
| Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 138 pages
...clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wines and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw,...They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields, and yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold... | |
| George Girling - 1882 - 168 pages
...clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wines and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw,...They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields, and yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and apices and fair bread, and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine honses; we have pain and labor, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and our toil... | |
| Moritz Kaufmann - 1883 - 276 pages
...toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have...They have leisure and fine houses, we have pain and labour, the rain and the winds and the fields, and yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold... | |
| Barbara Clay Finch - 1883 - 316 pages
...toil what they spend in their pride ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have...They have leisure and fine houses ; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold... | |
| John Hunter Smith - 1884 - 456 pages
...revolt in 1377-1381, said : " The great folk are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags : they have...straw, and water to drink : they have leisure and fine hours ; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields." Piers Ploughman says of the... | |
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