 The lean and bare labourers in the country did terrific even theeves themselves, who had nothing left them to spoile but the carkasses of these poore miserable creatures, wandering up and down like ghostes drawne out of their graves. The least farmes...  Joan of Arc, an epic poem - Página 231por Robert Southey - 1798 - 254 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 488 páginas
...describe. The sense of terror and wretchedness seemed to have extended itself even to the brute creation. " In sooth, the estate of France was then most miserable....but a horrible face, confusion, poverty, desolation, solitarinessc, and feare. The lean and bare laborers in the country did terrific even theeves themselves,... | |
 | Charles McClellan Stevens - 1918 - 386 páginas
...her birth describes the unhappy land in the same terms, saying, "In sooth the estate of France was most miserable. There appeared nothing but a horrible face, confusion, poverty, desolation, solitariness and fear." What a life into which a child should be born! What could it have of social... | |
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