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" He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went... "
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Volume 3 - Page 81
edited by - 1917
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The Weekly Miscellany; Or, Instructive Entertainer: Containing a ..., Volume 7

1776 - 632 pages
...towards the door, then caft it down, fhook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard the chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little ftick'upon the bundle. He gave a deep figh : I faw the iron, mcthought, enter iiito his foul : I fonrft...
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The Works of Laurence Sterne ...

Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 360 pages
...eye towards the door, then caft it down—fhook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little flick upon the bundle.—He gave a deep figh—I faw the iron enter into his foul—I burft into tears——I...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...towards the door, then caft it down — Ihook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little ftick upon the bundle — He gave a deep figh — I faw the iron enter into his foal — I burft into...
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: By Mr. Yorick. In Two ...

Laurence Sterne - 1782 - 168 pages
...towards the door, then caft it do.wja.. —fliook his head, and went on with his work of. affliction. I heard his chains. upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little ftick upon the bundle—He gave a deep figh I faw the iron enter into. his foul—I. bur.ft into tears—I...
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Essays, Moral and Literary, Volume 2

Vicesimus Knox - 1783 - 408 pages
...towards the door, then " caft it down, (hook his head, and went on with his " work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his " legs, as he turned his body to lay his little ftick " upon the bundle. He gave a deej> figh. I faw the " iron enter into his foul." It is eafy, but...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...towards the door, then cafi it down — fhook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little ftick upon the boodle— -He gave a deep %h — I faw the iron enter into his foul— I burft into...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...towards the door — then caft it down — fhook his head — and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little ftick upon the bundle. He gave a deep ligh. — I faw the iron enter into his foul. — I burft into...
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The Beauties of Sterne

Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1790 - 390 pages
...towards the door, then caft it down — fhook his head, and went on with his work: of affliftion. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little ftick upon the bundle • —He —He gave a deep figh — I faw the iron enter into his foul — I...
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The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining ...

Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...towards the door, then caft it down — Jhook his head, and went on with his work of xiffliftion. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little luck Tipon the bundle — He gave з deep ligh — 1 Cnv the iron enter into his foul — I burft into...
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The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind ...

Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...eye towards the door, then cast it down —shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs,. as he turned his body to lay his little sfiqk. upon. the bundle He gave a deep sigh—I saw the iron enter into his soul—I burst into tears—I...
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