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... hill yonder ` stood the scaffold , whence many a head , severed by the hand of the executioner , rolled to the ground ; but more of these things by - and - by . Were human crimes made visible , and did they occupy a space equal to their ...
... hill yonder ` stood the scaffold , whence many a head , severed by the hand of the executioner , rolled to the ground ; but more of these things by - and - by . Were human crimes made visible , and did they occupy a space equal to their ...
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... Hill , and the block , and the murderous axe , were at its close . The old palace and the painted hall are gone ; the councils are dissolved , the banquets are broken up , the revels are ended , and the guests departed . There stands ...
... Hill , and the block , and the murderous axe , were at its close . The old palace and the painted hall are gone ; the councils are dissolved , the banquets are broken up , the revels are ended , and the guests departed . There stands ...
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... Hill , for there frowns the scaffold , and the richest and the best blood of the land is reeking on the soil . I have passed through the Grand Storehouse , and gazed on its cannon and its mortars of wood , iron , and brass . I have ...
... Hill , for there frowns the scaffold , and the richest and the best blood of the land is reeking on the soil . I have passed through the Grand Storehouse , and gazed on its cannon and its mortars of wood , iron , and brass . I have ...
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... Hill I shall breathe more freely . Famous as is this Not always would I dwell within its moat - surrounded battlements for all the money that was ever coined within its shadowy pile , I like it not . D. walls the atmosphere of the past ...
... Hill I shall breathe more freely . Famous as is this Not always would I dwell within its moat - surrounded battlements for all the money that was ever coined within its shadowy pile , I like it not . D. walls the atmosphere of the past ...
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... Hill , who , when told , on the night of the fire , that the surrounding neighbourhood would be blown up by the gun- powder in the magazine , was enabled calmly to reply , that such an event could not take place without God's permission ...
... Hill , who , when told , on the night of the fire , that the surrounding neighbourhood would be blown up by the gun- powder in the magazine , was enabled calmly to reply , that such an event could not take place without God's permission ...
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