 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1837 - 420 pages
...heard in heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlid of vapors, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid ! The...— on the other side of a brick partition men are cursing ; and around them all is the vast, void Night Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms,... | |
 | 1833 - 798 pages
...in Heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlid of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid ! The...— on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing ; and around them all is the vast, void Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1878 - 496 pages
...midnight, or gazing down at the fringes of lamplight, which struggle up through its smoke and vapors. " The joyful and the sorrowful are there; men are dying...praying, — on the other side of a brick partition, men arc cursing; and around them all is vast, void night, — all these heaped and huddled together, with... | |
 | Clarence Stratton - English language - 1923 - 404 pages
...and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid! The joyful and the sorrowing are there; men are dying there, men are being born;...— on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing; and around them all is the vast, void Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed... | |
 | R. ABERCROMBIE M.A - 1885 - 1098 pages
...that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a fennenting-vat lies simmering and hid! The joyful and the sorrowful are there ; men are dying there, and men are being born ; men are praying — on the other side of a brick partition men are cursing;... | |
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I say, like the stertorous, unquiet slumber of sick Life, is heard in Heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful are there... 
