The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the Writings of Philosophers, Poets, Novelists, Social Reformers, and Others who Have Voiced the Struggle Against Social Injustice, Selected from Twenty-five Languages, Covering a Period of Five Thousand YearsUpton Sinclair John C. Winston Company, 1915 - 891 стор. Presents American author Upton Sinclair's selection of works of literature that portray American progressivism and reflect struggles against social injustice. Included are essays, stories, plays, and poems by such writers as Sinclair himself, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Zola, Kipling, Whitman, Shaw, Chesterton, Masefield, Galsworthy, London, Norris, Carlyle, Wilde, and many more. |
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... Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land ; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power ; To feel the passion of Eternity ? Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And marked their ways upon the ancient ...
... Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land ; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power ; To feel the passion of Eternity ? Is this the dream He dreamed who shaped the suns And marked their ways upon the ancient ...
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... lords and rulers in all lands , Is this the handiwork you give to God , This monstrous thing distorted and soul - quenched ? How will you ever straighten up this shape ; Touch it again with immortality ; Give back the upward looking and ...
... lords and rulers in all lands , Is this the handiwork you give to God , This monstrous thing distorted and soul - quenched ? How will you ever straighten up this shape ; Touch it again with immortality ; Give back the upward looking and ...
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... Lord , Thine open seas are singing with the rain , And somewhere underneath Thy stars the cool waves crash and beat ; Why is it here , and only here , are huddled Death and Pain , And here the form of Horror stalks , a menace in the ...
... Lord , Thine open seas are singing with the rain , And somewhere underneath Thy stars the cool waves crash and beat ; Why is it here , and only here , are huddled Death and Pain , And here the form of Horror stalks , a menace in the ...
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... Lord knows how . It is estimated that Kent alone requires eighty thousand of the street people to pick her hops . And out they come , obedient to the call , which is the call of their bellies and of the lingering dregs of adventure ...
... Lord knows how . It is estimated that Kent alone requires eighty thousand of the street people to pick her hops . And out they come , obedient to the call , which is the call of their bellies and of the lingering dregs of adventure ...
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... lord who , like a surfeited god , rides by on his high horse , casting now and then an aristocratically in- different glance at the mob below , as though they were swarming ants , or , at all events , a mass of baser beings , whose joys ...
... lord who , like a surfeited god , rides by on his high horse , casting now and then an aristocratically in- different glance at the mob below , as though they were swarming ants , or , at all events , a mass of baser beings , whose joys ...
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Сторінка 358 - King say unto them on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I •was a hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Сторінка 438 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Сторінка 233 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Сторінка 751 - LOST LEADER Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags, — were they purple, his heart had been proud...
Сторінка 604 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn: Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Сторінка 772 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Сторінка 771 - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Сторінка 838 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Сторінка 773 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Сторінка 228 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.