Polly of Parker's RentsJames Bowden, 1899 - Počet stran: 232 |
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Polly of Parker's Rents (Classic Reprint) Grace Thyrza Hannam Kimmins Náhled není k dispozici. - 2017 |
Polly of Parker's Rents (Classic Reprint) Grace Thyrza Hannam Kimmins Náhled není k dispozici. - 2017 |
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Strana 88 - And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, — Round our restlessness, His rest.
Strana 209 - God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!
Strana 64 - A white bird, she told him once, looking at him gravely, a bird which he must carry in his bosom across a crowded public place — his own soul was like that!
Strana 34 - Happy hearts and happy faces, Happy play in grassy places — That was how, in ancient ages, Children grew to kings and sages.
Strana 100 - Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime? There among the glooming alleys Progress halts on palsied feet, Crime and hunger cast our maidens by the thousand on the street. There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead. There the smouldering fire of fever creeps across the rotted floor, And the crowded couch of incest in the warrens of...
Strana 159 - ... power to bring about the one destiny — to avert the other ? Who can doubt that she may do something towards both these ends ? Imagine, for instance, an infant with the natural endowments of a Goethe, a Beethoven, a Raphael, or a Franklin, and let its cradle be placed in some haunt of misery and vice. A childhood without loving care, without guidance, passed in the midst of immoral surroundings ; a youth lived among drunkards, thieves, and liars — how much of the original material will have...