 | R. A. Smith - 1852 - 476 str.
...is extending with wondrous strides ; year by year streets are being laid out, and houses, extending away for squares, arise, as by the hand of magic,...west end," the change is no less extraordinary. Who does not remember the "duck ponds" and "commons out Broad Street?" They are gone, and houses unrivalled,... | |
 | 1852 - 322 str.
...is extending with wondrous strides ; year by year streets are being laid out, and houses, extending away for squares, arise, as by the hand of magic,...lately " waved in golden harvest." Spring Garden and Pean, twelve years ago, were rural districts. Now look at them ! We remember rambling, five years since,... | |
 | 1854 - 290 str.
...is extending with wondrous strides ; year by year streets are being laid out, and houses, extending away for squares, arise, as by the hand of magic,...West end," the change is no less extraordinary. Who does not remember the "duck ponds" and "commons tmt Broad Street?" They are gone, and houses unrivalled,... | |
 | 1860 - 312 str.
...is extending with wondrous strides ; year by year 'streets are being laid out, and houses, extnding away for squares, arise, as by the hand of magic,...at them ! We remember rambling, five years since, througk fields immediately north of Poplar Street, where are now beautiful streets, adorned with tasty,... | |
 | 1866 - 284 str.
...is extending with wondrous strides ; year by year streets are being laid out, and houses, extending away for squares, arise, as by the hand of magic,...at them ! We remember rambling, five years since, througl fields immediately north of Poplar Street, where are now beautiful streets, adorned with tasty,... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society, New York - 1905 - 232 str.
...are being laid out, and houses, extending away for squares, arise, as if by the hand of magic, and ground that lately waved in golden harvest — Spring...West End the change is no less extraordinary. Who does not remember the duck ponds and commons out Broad Street? They are gone, and houses, unrivaled... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of New York - 1905 - 232 str.
...are being laid out, and houses, extending away for squares, arise, as if by the hand of magic, and ground that lately waved in golden harvest — Spring...West End the change is no less extraordinary. Who does not remember the duck ponds and commons out Broad Street? They are gone, and houses, unrivaled... | |
 | John R. Stilgoe - 1988 - 374 str.
...city is extending with wondrous strides; year by year streets are being laid out, and houses extending away for squares, arise, as by the hand of magic, on ground that lately 'waved in golden harvest,' " he exclaims, using the simile .\ '& VV 1 + - ) / \s- ^~J » w .^ T> . -j , uV"» V /;^ \^WT"^ /--... | |
 | Richard N. Juliani - 2010 - 430 str.
...is extending with wondrous strides; year by year streets are being laid out, and houses, extending away for squares, arise, as by the hand of magic, on ground that lately "waved in golden harvest."24 Not all who sought their future in Philadelphia found favorable conditions. As immigrants... | |
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... enterprise of her citizens was never more displayed than at present. Railroads and canals pour into her lap the treasures alike of our own mountains and the great valley of the glorious West. The city is extending with wondrous strides ; year by year... 