Workers in the Dawn: A Novel. In Three Volumes, Volume 3Remington and Company, 5 Arundel Street, Strand, W.C., 1880 - England |
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acquaintance appeared Arthur Golding Augustus Whiffle better Billy Jackson brandy Camden Town Carrie Carrie's cried Cumberbatch delight door dread drink endeavour exclaimed eyes face fear feel felt fire girl Gresham hand happy heard heart Heatherley Helen Norman Highbury hope hour husband knew laugh length light lips live look Lucy Venning Lucy's Maud mean mind minutes miserable Miss Norman morning nature never night Noble once pain Parthia passed passion Pole Polly Hemp Portland Place promise replied Arthur replied Helen replied Lucy returned scarcely seemed silence Smales smil smile speak spoke stood street suddenly suffering sure talk tell thought tion to-night told Tollady tone took Tottenham Court Road trouble turbed turned uncon utmost utter voice Waghorn walked week Whiffle whilst whispered wife William Noble woman wonder word wretched
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Page 186 - In appearance it may do more, but in reality its spirit permeates every layer of society . . . nothing in this world is more useful than the beautiful, nothing works so powerfully for the ultimate benefit of mankind...
Page 313 - The secret of his life lay in the fact that his was an illbalanced nature, lacking that element of a firm and independent will which might at any moment exert its preponderance in situations of doubt.
Page 186 - ... which work so strongly in your mind . . . you must not allow . . . to lead you astray . . . nothing in this world is more useful than the beautiful, nothing works so powerfully for the ultimate benefit of mankind ... in becoming a pure artist you would do far more to advance the ends [of civilisation] than by wearing away your life in petty efforts to do immediate good. Genius has always had, and always will have, laws to itself.
Page 186 - ... useful, from which term they generally exclude everything which cannot be of immediate use to their own narrow natures. But nothing in this world is more useful than the beautiful, nothing works so powerfully for the ultimate benefit of mankind.
Page 68 - Carrie's experience had been that öl the numberless girls in a timilar destituic condition whom London nightly pillows in her hard corners, the only peculiarity being that she had found a way out of her misery without having resource either to the workhouse or the river.
Page 184 - I bid you give yourself henceforth solely to art, for you are born to be an artist. The feelings of infinite compassion for the poor which work so strongly in your mind . . . you must not allow ... to lead you astray . . . nothing in this world is more useful than the beautiful, nothing works so powerfully for the ultimate benefit of mankind ... in becoming a pure artist you would do far more to advance the ends [of...
Page 248 - Hemp, round, fair, marked with an incomparably vicious smile, the nose very thin and wellshaped, the lips brutally sensual, the forehead narrow and receding; that of Mrs. Pole altogether coarser and more vulgar, the nose swollen at the end and red, the mouth bestial and sullen, the eyes watery and somewhat inflamed, the chin marked by a slight growth of reddish hair.
Page 313 - one of those men whose lives seem to have little result for the world save as a useful illustration of the force of circumstances'.
Page 185 - ... a gift carries with it grave responsibilities. That you should have been tempted to consider the artist's work as trivial and useless, I can understand ; it was owing to peculiar circumstances acting upon a peculiar nature. But it is now time that you saw your error. We who toil on from day to day doing our little best to lessen the sum of the world's misery are doing good work, it cannot be denied; but what is this compared with the labour of men of genius, labour the result of which stands...
Page 2 - ... Verhältnis. Arthur ist überglücklich, dem armen Wesen Carrie die ganze Wärme und Liebenswürdigkeit seiner Persönlichkeit mitzuteilen, sie zu hegen und zu pflegen und zu einer würdigen Gattin, zur "lady" zu erziehen. Ganz so wäre auch Dickens verfahien. "Arthur brought his wife home in an intoxication of joy and hope. Carrie was now his, his to guard, to foster, to cherish; his moreover, to lead into higher paths than her feet had yet known, to develop, in short, into the ideal woman that...