| 1839 - Liczba stron: 870
...celebrated Opinm-Eater, with hitter feeling, as — " Oxford Street 1— stony-hearted step-mother 1 Thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest...though his spirits were not just then very buoyant, the poor dandy breathed more freely than when he was passing through the nasty crowded court (Closet... | |
| 1821 - Liczba stron: 724
...AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER BEING AN EXTRACT FKOM THE LIFE OF A SCHOLAB. PABT II. So then, Oxford-street, stonyhearted step-mother ! thou that listenest to...sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee: the time was come at last that I no more should pace in anguish... | |
| 1839 - Liczba stron: 892
...on, and soon reached the great broad street, apostrophized by the celebrated Opinm-Eater, with hitter feeling, as — " Oxford Street !— stony-hearted...though his spirits were not just then very buoyant, the poor dandy breathed more freely than when he was passing through the nasty crowded court (Closet... | |
| 1839 - Liczba stron: 880
...left side. He was as — " Oxford Street ! — stony-hearted really not bad-looking, in spite of his step-mother ! Thou that listenest to the sighs of...drinkest the tears of children." Here, though his eyes were of a very light colour, and spirits were not just then very buoy, a trifle too protuberant... | |
| Warren - 1842 - Liczba stron: 824
...Opium-Eater, with bitter feeling, as — "Oxford Street! — stony-hearted step-mother! Thou that listenest (o the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children!"...breathed more freely than when he was passing through the nasty crowded court (Closet Court) which he had just quitted . He passed and met hundreds who, like... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - Liczba stron: 270
...brutalities of ruffians had completed the ruin they had begun. 20 PART II. So then, Oxford-street, stony-hearted stepmother ! thou that listenest to...sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee : the time was come at last that I no more should pace in anguish... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - Liczba stron: 324
...her ingenuous nature, or the brutalities of ruffians had completed the ruin they had begun. So then, Oxford Street, stony-hearted stepmother, thou that...sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee ! the time was come at last that I no more should pace in anguish... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - Liczba stron: 316
...her ingenuous nature, or the brutalities of ruffians had completed the ruin they had begun. So then, Oxford Street, stony-hearted stepmother, thou that...sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee ! the time was come at last that I no more should pace in anguish... | |
| 1852 - Liczba stron: 486
...the contumely of the booksellers. To him, the truth of that sad wail of De Quincey, " Oxford-street, stony-hearted step-mother ! thou that listenest to...sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children," was a thing unknown and unexperienced. High in hope, strong in all the bravery of his bright genius,... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - Liczba stron: 520
...(1849.)• A divine apostrophe to Solitude, and others, we are compelled to omit. * So then, Oxford-street, stony-hearted stepmother! thou that listenest to the...sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee," &c. — Confessions of an KOE Part II. t Ibid. " The Pains of... | |
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