Mysteries of City Life; Or, Stray Leaves from the World's Book: Being a Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes, Founded Upon the Notes of a Home MissionaryJ.W. Moore, 1849 - 408 sider |
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... Dark Days of Philadelphia , a Tale of the Yellow Fever of '93 , • THIRTY - THIRD . - Music of Nature , THIRTY - FOURTH . - The Will , or Villany Punished , • 257 298 302 THIRTY - FIFTH . - Lucy Somers , a Legend of '76 . 324 THIRTY ...
... Dark Days of Philadelphia , a Tale of the Yellow Fever of '93 , • THIRTY - THIRD . - Music of Nature , THIRTY - FOURTH . - The Will , or Villany Punished , • 257 298 302 THIRTY - FIFTH . - Lucy Somers , a Legend of '76 . 324 THIRTY ...
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... dark shadows of the earth , those huge and cumbrous limbs of misshapen clouds , seem to rest more darkly on the homes of the poor , than they do on the mansions of the rich . The sun too , seems to shine less brightly on poverty than it ...
... dark shadows of the earth , those huge and cumbrous limbs of misshapen clouds , seem to rest more darkly on the homes of the poor , than they do on the mansions of the rich . The sun too , seems to shine less brightly on poverty than it ...
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... darkness instead of light thrown around his pathway of life ? Do the flowers smell less fragrantly , or the birds sing less sweetly , in our age , than they do in our youth ? or do they fade away , and die before the fell simoon of time ...
... darkness instead of light thrown around his pathway of life ? Do the flowers smell less fragrantly , or the birds sing less sweetly , in our age , than they do in our youth ? or do they fade away , and die before the fell simoon of time ...
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... dark- ness ; it were to dry up the fountain of human happiness ; it were to take thee from our waters and leave them stag- nant , and the stars from the heavens and leave them in sack- cloth , and the verdure from our valleys and leave ...
... dark- ness ; it were to dry up the fountain of human happiness ; it were to take thee from our waters and leave them stag- nant , and the stars from the heavens and leave them in sack- cloth , and the verdure from our valleys and leave ...
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... dark and dreary alley ? Behold before you a tottering and dilapidated dwelling . Let us enter . Every thing around , though neat and clean , bears marks of the most pinching poverty . Before you is MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE . 23.
... dark and dreary alley ? Behold before you a tottering and dilapidated dwelling . Let us enter . Every thing around , though neat and clean , bears marks of the most pinching poverty . Before you is MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE . 23.
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Agnes Alfred appearance asked beautiful beneath bless bright called Charles Marlowe cheek child Clairville cold crime curse dark daughter dead dear death dollars door dreams dwelling earth exclaimed eyes father fearful feel gazed George Somers Giles girl grave hand happy heard heart heaven Henry Middleton hope human Kris Kringle labor LEAF light Little Savage lives look Lucy Marlowe Mary Mary Elliott mind misery Missionary mother never night o'er opened pale pale moonlight passed Peter Helm Philadelphia picture poor Poplar Lane Potter's Field poverty pray prayer readers rich scene sick smile Somers sorrow soul sound speak Stephen Girard stood street Sunderland Switzer tears tell tempest thee thing thought uttered voice wife wild window woman words wretched yellow fever young youth
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Side 64 - Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Side 25 - Messiah's name ! 4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole : Till o'er our ransom'd nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Side 25 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile : In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen, in his blindness, Bows down to wood and stone...
Side 382 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Side 264 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Side 25 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Side 70 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Side 251 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Side 107 - Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty...
Side 211 - Oh grief, beyond all other griefs, when fate First leaves the young heart lone and desolate In the wide world, without that only tie For which it loved to live or feared to die...