Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly. With a sketch of the life of J. Henson |
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... The boy commenced one of those wild , grotesque songs common armong the negroes , in a rich , clear voice , accompanying his singing with many comic evolutions of the hands , feet , and whole body , all in perfect time to the music . 1.
... The boy commenced one of those wild , grotesque songs common armong the negroes , in a rich , clear voice , accompanying his singing with many comic evolutions of the hands , feet , and whole body , all in perfect time to the music . 1.
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... voice and manner , which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quadroon and mulatto women . These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind , and in almost every case with a ...
... voice and manner , which seems in many cases to be a particular gift to the quadroon and mulatto women . These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind , and in almost every case with a ...
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... voices , in airs at once wild and spirited . The words were sometimes the well - known and common hymns sung in the churches about , and sometimes of a wilder , more indefinite character , picked up at camp meetings . The chorus to one ...
... voices , in airs at once wild and spirited . The words were sometimes the well - known and common hymns sung in the churches about , and sometimes of a wilder , more indefinite character , picked up at camp meetings . The chorus to one ...
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... voices died into silence , she rose and crept stealthily away . Pale , shivering , with rigid features and compressed lips , she looked an entirely altered being from the soft and timid creature she had been hitherto . She moved ...
... voices died into silence , she rose and crept stealthily away . Pale , shivering , with rigid features and compressed lips , she looked an entirely altered being from the soft and timid creature she had been hitherto . She moved ...
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... voice , " tell him to be as good as he can , and try and meet me in the kingdom of heaven . " " Call Bruno in there , " she added . " Shut the door on him , poor beast ! He mustn't go with me . " A few last words and tears , a few ...
... voice , " tell him to be as good as he can , and try and meet me in the kingdom of heaven . " " Call Bruno in there , " she added . " Shut the door on him , poor beast ! He mustn't go with me . " A few last words and tears , a few ...
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Էջ 316 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
Էջ 126 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Էջ 201 - Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb, In life's happy morning, hath hid from our eyes, Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom, Or earth had profaned what was born for the skies.
Էջ 237 - Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity...
Էջ 133 - Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say. How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
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Էջ 242 - When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls And pearly gates behold ? Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong, And streets of shining gold...
Էջ 170 - Nobody, as I knows on," said the child, with a short laugh. The idea appeared to amuse her considerably; for her eyes twinkled, and she added, " I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me.
Էջ 260 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.