| Thomas Carlyle - Transcendentalism in literature - 1831 - 294 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms, and dancingrooms, are full of light...life beats tremulous and faint, and bloodshot eyes look-out through the darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six... | |
| 1837 - 1322 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancingrooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men ore to be hanged on the morrow ; comes no hammering from the Kaoenstein? — their gallows... | |
| 1848 - 780 pages
...but in the Condemned Cells the pulse of life heats tremulous and faint, and bloodshot ties look nut through the darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Sij men are to be hanged on the morrow : comes i") hammering from the R:iben-sleiii t — their gal!"*»... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow ; comes no hammering from the Rabenstein ? — their gallows... | |
| Theology - 1837 - 424 pages
...side of a brick partition men are cursing ; and around them all is the vast, void Night Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning Riot cries aloud, and staggers and swaggers in his rank dens of shame ; and the mother, with streaming... | |
| American literature - 1837 - 660 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancingrooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow ; comes no hammering from the Rabenstcin? — their gallows... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...music and high swelling hearts ; but, " in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tre" mulous and faint, and bloodshot eyes look out through " the...and within, for the light " of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on " the morrow : comes no hammering from the Raben" stein 1 — their gallows... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 326 pages
...music and high swelling hearts ; but, " in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tre" mulous and faint, and bloodshot eyes look out through " the...and within, for the light " of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on " the morrow : comes no hammering from the Ruben"stein? — their gallows... | |
| 1841 - 306 pages
...Gay mansions, with supper rooms, and dancing rooms, arc full of light and music, and high ¡swelling hearts, but in the condemned cells, the pulse of life...darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a last stern jmorning. Riot cries aloud, and staggers '"nd swaggers in his rank dens of shame, JEALOUSY.... | |
| College students' writings, American - 1842 - 506 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancingrooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern, last morning. Six nen are to be hanged on the morrow ; comes no hammering from the Rabenstein ? — their gallows... | |
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