Popular TalesRoutledge, Warne & Routledge, 1862 - 413 頁 |
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第 399 頁 - Man, this is one of the most extraordinary, that he shall go on from day to day, from week to week, from month to month.
第 339 頁 - THE GRATEFUL NEGRO. In the island of Jamaica there lived two planters, whose methods of managing their slaves were as different as possible. Mr. Jefferies considered the negroes as an inferior species, incapable of gratitude, disposed to treachery, and to be roused from their natural indolence only by force; he treated his slaves, or rather suffered his overseer to treat them, with the greatest severity. Jefferies was not a man of a cruel, but of a thoughtless and extravagant temper. He was of such...
第 360 頁 - Where shall I find him? angels, tell me where. You know him ; he is near you ; point him out. Shall I see glories beaming from his brow, Or trace his footsteps by the rising flowers?
第 341 頁 - Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear. The wages which Mr. Edwards promised, he took care to see punctually paid. He had an excellent overseer, of the name of Abraham Bayley, a man of a mild but steady temper, who was attached not only to his master's interests but to his virtues; and who, therefore, was more intent upon seconding his humane views than upon squeezing from the labour of the negroes the utmost...
第 360 頁 - Full power'd to cancel, expiate, raise, adorn, And reinstate us on the rock of peace. Let it not share its predecessor's fate ; Nor, like its elder sisters, die a fool.
第 341 頁 - For instance, his negroes had reasonable and fixed daily tasks; and when these were finished, they were permitted to employ their time for their own advantage or amusement. If they chose to employ themselves longer for their master, they were paid regular wages for their extra work. This reward, for as such it was considered, operated most powerfully upon the slaves.
第 361 頁 - Your golden wings, now hov'ring o'er him, shed Protection; now, are waving in applause To that blest son of foresight! lord of fate! That awful independent on To-morrow ! Whose work is done; who triumphs in the Past; Whose Yesterdays look backwards with a smile ; Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly; That common, but opprobrious lot!
第 350 頁 - She paused and hesitated, as if afraid that she had said too much; but Caesar urged her with so much vehemence, and so much tenderness, to open to him her whole soul, that, at last, she could not resist his eloquence. She reluctantly revealed to him that secret of which she could not think without horror. She informed him, that unless he complied with what was required of him by the sorceress Esther, he was devoted to die. What it was that Esther required of him, Clara knew not: she knew nothing...
第 349 頁 - you once loved me: I have done nothing, have I, to forfeit your confidence ¿ “I once loved you !“ said she, raising her languid eyes, and looking at him with reproachful tenderness; “and can you doubt my constancy? Oh, Cscsar, you little know what is passing in my heart! You are the cause of my melancholy...
第 349 頁 - Caesar was indefatigable in his exertions to cultivate and embellish the ground near his cottage, in hopes of making it an agreeable habitation for her; but she seemed to take no interest in any thing. She would stand beside him immoveable, in a deep reverie...