 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...Oh, men ! with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch ! stitch ! stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and...seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work ! work ! work ! My labour... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...O ! men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creature's lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my ownIt seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep, Oh ! God! that bread should be so dear, And... | |
 | John Blackmore (lieut.) - 1860 - 344 pages
...! Oh, men, with mothers and wives! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch , In poverty, hunger,...with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." Oh then pity her, and help her, lest her poverty drive her to the streets, and she ends her days in... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...! Oh! men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch— stitch— stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A SHEOUD as well as a shirt ! "But why do I talk of death, That phantom of grisly bone ; I hardly fear... | |
 | Ellen Barlee - 1860 - 262 pages
...possess not an hour of true liberty unless they starve to secure it. Shall it continue so ? CHAPTER V. " Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A dhroud as well as a shirt." HOOD. To illustrate the truth of the last chapter, and the necessity existing... | |
 | Paul Émile Daurand Forgues - 1860 - 408 pages
...hunger, anddirl... Et combien de mots ne faudrait-il pas pour rendre les deux vers qui suivent ceux-ci : Sewing at once, with a double thread A Shroud as well as a Shirt! Pourtant, çà et là, éclatent des pensées tout à fait shakspeariennes : squelette sinistre,—... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 pages
...O, men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep; O, God ! that bread should be so dear. And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work — work ! My... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 pages
...Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives ! It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger,...seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " "Work — -work — work... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...dear ! O men with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives l Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger,...my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fast I keep : O God ! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap ! " Work — work... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...! O men, with mothers and wives ! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives ! Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt...why do I talk of Death, That phantom of grisly bone ? 171 I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own ; It seems so like my own Because of... | |
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O men with Sisters dear ! O men with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch - stitch - stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. 
