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 páginas |
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... things , reflects back its rays with a mocking glare , and as they glitter and sparkle , seem to say : - " We are the gems of earth , as you are of heaven . " ? Yet if the lone heart , and the tortured mind , or the weak- ened body ...
... things , reflects back its rays with a mocking glare , and as they glitter and sparkle , seem to say : - " We are the gems of earth , as you are of heaven . " ? Yet if the lone heart , and the tortured mind , or the weak- ened body ...
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... storm and tempest from the frozen North ? It is strange to think of such things , and yet how often have we thought that there was an aristocracy even in the elements ! They like the rich and proud , worry 14 MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE .
... storm and tempest from the frozen North ? It is strange to think of such things , and yet how often have we thought that there was an aristocracy even in the elements ! They like the rich and proud , worry 14 MYSTERIES OF CITY LIFE .
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... things around and about him smile , and seemingly participate in his transports . Is not this true happiness ? and yet old age , sour and cross , looks on , and far back into the past , with cindered passions in his heart , and he talks ...
... things around and about him smile , and seemingly participate in his transports . Is not this true happiness ? and yet old age , sour and cross , looks on , and far back into the past , with cindered passions in his heart , and he talks ...
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... yonder 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.
... yonder 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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... thing to eat . Ah ! what anguish fills that poor man's heart . It has not always been so with him . Once he had a com- fortable home , and he could look upon his little family with joy . But alas ! that rapacious disease , which has ...
... thing to eat . Ah ! what anguish fills that poor man's heart . It has not always been so with him . Once he had a com- fortable home , and he could look upon his little family with joy . But alas ! that rapacious disease , which has ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...