 ... alleys, paved with mud knee-deep, underground chambers, where they dance and game; the walls bedecked with rough designs of ships, and forts, and flags, and American Eagles out of number; ruined houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps...  The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and Sciences - Page 3021842Full view - About this book
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 590 pages
...houses, open to the street , whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...room of the Five-point fashionables is approached Ly a descent. Shall we go in? It is but a moment. Heyday! tlie landlady of Almack's thrives! A buxom... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pages
...houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls , other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...calls to us from the bottom of the steps; for the assembly-room of the Five-Point fashionables is approached by a descent. Shall we go in? It is but... | |
 | Charles Dickens - United States - 1842 - 340 pages
...houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...is here. Our leader has his hand upon the latch of " AI mack's, " and calls to us from the bottom of the steps ; for the assembly-room of the Five-Point... | |
 | Arts - 1842 - 592 pages
...houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...decayed is here. Our leader has his hand upon the l.:hh of ' Almack's,' and calls to us from the bottom of the steps; for the assembly room of the Five-point... | |
 | Ireland - 1843 - 450 pages
...houses, open to the street", whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here." ..." What is this intolerable tolling of great bells, and crashing of wheels, and shouting in the distance... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Biography & Autobiography - 1850 - 206 pages
...houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else to show : hideous tenements which take Лейпате from robbery and murder : all that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here. Our... | |
 | City missions - 1854 - 338 pages
...houses, open to the street, whence through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...all that is loathsome, drooping and decayed is here !" Thus as delineated by a careful observer whose quick eye noted the details that make the tout ensemble... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
...houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...leader has his hand upon the latch of " Almack's," T and calls to us from the bottom of the steps ; for the assemblyroom of the Five-Point fashionables... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 pages
...houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...calls to us from the bottom of the steps ; for the assembly-room of the Five Point fashionables is approached by a descent. Shall we go in ? It is but... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 596 pages
...houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else...calls to us from the bottom of the steps ; for the assemblyroom of the Five Point fashionables is approached by a descent. Shall we go in ? It is but... | |
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