Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated. Including the Story of Little Katy, Madalina, the Rag-picker's Daughter, Wild Maggie, &c. With Original Designs, Engraved by N. Orr |
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Page 179 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 125 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 135 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the
Page 306 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would man observingly distil it out." THAT was well exemplified in the last chapter. It may be in this. If any of the readers of these " Scenes " suppose the writer lost sight of the chance to do good, and the right time to do it, that the death of "Little Katy," offered, they are quite mistaken. Although he may not be...
Page 315 - And worse I may be yet : the worst is not So long as we can say,
Page 220 - Alas ! prisons prevent not crime, nor does incarceration work reformation upon such as dwell in tenements such as we have just visited. " It is but a step from the palace to the tomb." True, and so it seemed this night ; for ere I had fairly realized the fact that I had passed over the short step of two squares between the City prison — the Tombs — and Broadway, I stood looking into that great palace hall on the corner of Franklin street, known as Taylor's Saloon. Was ever eating and drinking...
Page 71 - No, not exactly that — there is no bed in the room — no chair — no table — no nothing — but rags, and dirt, and vermin, and degraded, rum degraded, human beings — men and women with just such souls as animate the highest and proudest in the land.
Page 334 - A true devoted pilgrim is not weary To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps; Much less shall she, that hath love's wings to fly; And when the flight is made to one so dear, Of such divine perfection, as sir Proteus.
Page 60 - A thought struck me. I asked her if she could read. Yes, and write. Had she been to school? Yes. 'Then you shall play school. You shall have these benches, and you shall call in those children, and you shall be the teacher, and so you may play school. ' "Was there ever a happier thought engendered? Maggie was delighted, the children came rushing in, ready for 'a play never before enacted in this theater. ' "For an hour or more she plied her task diligently, and it was astonishing with what effect....
Page 104 - He, that of the greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister." I HAVE still anotlier little episode in tliis life drama— a scene in one of the acts, which we may as well put upon the stage at this point of the story, though it is quite unconnected with those that immediately precede it ; yet you will find a character here, in whom you have, perhaps, taken some interest.