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" Brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed: thou wert our Conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred. "
The Univercœlum and Spiritual Philosopher - Page 308
1848
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Folia Litteraria: Essays and Notes on English Literature

John Wesley Hales - English literature - 1893 - 408 pages
...Hardly entreated brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed ; thou wert our conscript, on whom the...and fighting our battles wert so marred. For in thee lay a God-created form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted must it stand, with the thick adhesions...
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Folia Litteraria: Essays and Notes on English Literature

John Wesley Hales - English literature - 1893 - 392 pages
...thou wert our conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred. For in thee lay a God-created form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted must it stand, with the thick adhesions and defacements of Labour; and thy body, like thy soul, was...
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The Popular Elocutionist and Reciter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...Hardly entreated brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed ; thou wert our conscript on whom the...God-created form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of labour; and thy body, like thy soul, was...
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The Carlyle reader, selections ed. by J. Wood, Part 1

Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 192 pages
...Hardly-entreated Brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed : thou wert our Conscript, on whom the...godcreated Form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of Labour: and thy body, like thy soul, was...
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Readings from Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1894 - 300 pages
...Hardly-entreated Brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed : thou wert our Conscript, on whom the...god-created Form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of Labour : and thy body, like thy soul, was...
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Marcella, Volume 1

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Children's literature - 1894 - 478 pages
...— Hardly-entreated Brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the...lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred.' Heavens ! how the words swing ! But it is great nonsense, you know, for you and me — Venturists —...
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Talk at a Country House: Fact and Fiction

Sir Edward Strachey - English essays - 1894 - 280 pages
...are still secured for them. " For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the...fell, and, fighting our battles, wert so marred." Foster. Our conversation is getting to be as full of quotations as the play of " Hamlet;" yet I must...
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Marcella, Volume 1

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Children's literature - 1894 - 468 pages
...— Hardly-entreated Brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the...lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred.' Heavens ! how the words swing ! But it is great nonsense, you know, for you and me — Venturists —...
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The School Service

Joseph Krauskopf - Jewish religious education - 1894 - 66 pages
...Oh, thou son of hardy toil, for us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed. Thou wert our conscript on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert thou so marred. For in thee, too, lay a God-created form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted...
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus

Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 292 pages
...Hardly-entreated Brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed : thou wert our Conscript, on whom the...god-created Form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of Labour : and thy body, like thy soul, was...
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