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- Tags: tears
The Deformed Boy
Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows
Modern Chivalry
Tags: 1826, A Winter's Tale, Antigua, Atlantic Souvenir, Bacchus, British colonies, Canton, Cape May, Catholic, Chesapeake Bay, China, Cowes, cross-dressing, disguise, Dolph Heilegher, Don Juan Canto II, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Elk River, England, Gravesend, Haverstraw Bay, Henry IV Part I, Hermione, Historical fiction, Hong merchants, Hudson River, indenture, Isle of Wight, John Paul Jones (1747-1792), Lord Byron, Maryland, Oliver Goldsmith, Pasha, Perdita, Philadelphia, plantation, Pope, Redwood: A Tale, Revolutionary War, Rodomontade novels, Romance novels, sailing, sailors, sentimentality, servants, Shakespeare, shipwreck, Sir Oracle, Sir Toby Blech, Sir Walter Scott, slavery, St. Kitts, Storm, tears, Thames River, The Heart of Midlothian, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Washington Irving, West Indies
"Old Maids"
"St. Catharine's Eve"
Tags: God, heaven, infidelity, John the Baptist, morals, Orthodox Church, pious, priest, tears, Temptation, The Token
"Mary Smith"
Tags: Consumption, Country, Fall, Juvenile Miscellany, Nature, New York, religion, tears