 | Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...openly bearing the sword. • • » » * | ' When the vitriol madness flushes up in the ruffian's head, Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife, While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread, And the spirit of murder works in... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 626 pages
...attention of the public by recent accounts of the adulteration of food. It is, indeed, sad enough, " When chalk, and alum, and plaster, are sold to the poor...the spirit of murder works in the very means of life :" and when the luxuries of the rich are in many cases quite as much tampered with ; while, when medical... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1855 - 126 pages
...remarkable argument ever put forward. We are told how " The vitriol madness flushes up in the ruffian's head, Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife." and how there are a great many other shameful vices in time of peace ; and then follows the truism that... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...vineyard— yes 1 but a company forges the wine. And the vitriol madness flushes up in the ruffian's head. Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife, Wh'le chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread. And the spirit of murder works In... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...vineyard— yes ! —bat a company forges the wlno. And the vitriol madness flushes np in the ruffian's head, Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife, While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for broad. And the spirit of murder works In... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...chereujc out of Blue Books, and leaves the praises of his mistress w observe, by the way, that — " Chalk and alum and plaster, Are sold to the poor for bread." Had our limits been larger we should have gladly treated, at some length, the metres adopted by Mr.... | |
 | 1883 - 846 pages
...may also lead men to practise similar frauds in trade. It is the spirit of gambling which causes that Chalk and alum and plaster Are sold to the poor for bread, as well as creates Companies professing to give their shareholders a fortune for almost nothing. We... | |
 | Church work with the poor - 1855 - 972 pages
...flushes up In the ruffian's head. Till the fllthy by.lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife; While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for...spirit of murder works In the very means of life. " When a Mammonlte mother kills her babe for л burial fee. And Tlinour-Maramon grins on a pile of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 1855 - 180 pages
...flushes up in the ruffian's head, Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife, While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for...spirit of murder works in the very means of life. 11. And Sleep must lie down arm'd, for the villainous centre-bits Grind on the wakeful ear in the hush... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 1416 pages
...flushes up in the ruffian's head, Tin the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife, While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for...spirit of murder works in the very means of life. And Sleep mint lie down arm'd, for the villainous centre-bits tirind on the wakeful ear In the hush... | |
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And chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread, And the spirit of murder works in the very means of life... 
