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...on the thick, damp vapours. But this that follows has, we think, more of London in its horror — " Where the lamps quiver, So far in the river, With...basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night 1 " The bleak winds of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing... | |
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...THE LAW OF KINDNESS. BY ELIZABETH YOUATT. Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full; Home she had none. THOMAS HOOD. " Depend upon it," said Professor N , after a long conversation, the whole substance of... | |
 | 1846 - 608 Seiten
...a nearer one Yet, than all other? " Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Ob ! it was pitiful, Near a whole city full. Home she had none. " Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly Feeling- hnd changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown Irom its eminence ; Even God's providence Seeming... | |
 | 1868
...from the consummation of her sad design. " Alaa for the rarity of Christian charity, Under the sun ; Oh, it was pitiful ! near a whole city full, Home she had none." Shall not her fate be a solemn warning to young and unwary girls to shun the flatteries and avoid the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 Seiten
...pitiful, Near a whole city full. Heme she had none. " Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly Ferlingi had changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from...estranged. " Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, 1346.] TBE LATE THOMAS HOOD. With many a light From window and casement, From g.irret tu basement,... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 Seiten
...a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh 1 it was pitiful, Near a whole city full, Home she had none. " Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly Fuelings had changed : Love, by liarsh evidence. Thrown from its eminence ; Even God's providence Seeming... | |
 | 1847 - 432 Seiten
...return. STf)e A DARK TALE FOR A DARK NIGHT. BY CHARLTON CAREW. ( Author of " The Poacher's Wife." ) " Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many...basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night." Thamca Hood. Houseless by night ! And that on the hill of Harrow, with a howling wind driving the snow... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1847 - 366 Seiten
...broke from him, and passed on more rapidly than before— till Where the lamps quiver, Far down by the river, With many a light, From window and casement,...garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless at night. The cold wind of night Made her tremble and shiver, But not the darkarch Or the black flowing... | |
 | Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1848 - 380 Seiten
...she broke from him, and passed on more rapidly than before—till Where the lamps quiver, Far down by the river, With many a light, From window and casement,...garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless at night. The cold wind of night , Made her tremble and shiver, But not the darkarch > Or the black... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 Seiten
...Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh ! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Home...eminence; Even God's providence Seeming estranged. With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement, Houseless... | |
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Who was her father? Who was her mother ? Had she a sister? Had she a brother ? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh, it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full.... 
