 | 680 pages
...hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of mi?ery 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 then went on with his work of affliction. I heard the chains upon his legs, as ho turned his body to... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add tc the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye...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... | |
 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...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...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 stick upon the bundle —... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1802 - 284 pages
...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...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 stick upon the bundle —... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1803 - 332 pages
...description of a captive. " As I darkened the little light he " had, he lifted up a hopeless eye toward 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 stick upon the bundle.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...hand , and with arnsty nail he was etching another day of mi»ery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had*, he lifted up a hopeless...his head , and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his cfiains upon his legs , as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle —... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...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...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 stick upon the bundle —... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 430 pages
...hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As J darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye...down shook his head, and went on with his work of affli6\ion. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...presented to the senses or fixed in the memory, and makes no combinations of its own, is thought to 'account in part for the effect which exhibitions...persons, who do not discover much sensibility to the calamities of real life. In a novel or a tragedy tbe picture is complete!}' finished in all its parts,... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...presented to the^senses or fixed in the memory, and makes no combinations of its own, is thought to ' account in part for the effect which exhibitions of...some persons, who do not discover much sensibility to fhe calamities of real life. In • novel or a tragedy the picture is completely finished in all its... | |
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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 on with his work of affliction. 
