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... never seen this daily exhibition , to gaze upon it ; and if you have a kind heart , and two- pence in your pocket , I feel quite sure , that in such a case , some poor widow , or pale - faced girl , with her crockery in her hand , will ...
... never seen this daily exhibition , to gaze upon it ; and if you have a kind heart , and two- pence in your pocket , I feel quite sure , that in such a case , some poor widow , or pale - faced girl , with her crockery in her hand , will ...
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... never pass the place without more than common thankfulness to the Father of mer- cies in sparing me the torment that better men have endured ! I like to visit the Cemeteries around the city , and bend over the resting - places of the ...
... never pass the place without more than common thankfulness to the Father of mer- cies in sparing me the torment that better men have endured ! I like to visit the Cemeteries around the city , and bend over the resting - places of the ...
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... never smiled , and that now frowns as darkly as ever . Famous as a fortress , a palace , and a prison , it cannot be regarded without interest . Time has been when such a scene would have called up all the romances and chivalrous ...
... never smiled , and that now frowns as darkly as ever . Famous as a fortress , a palace , and a prison , it cannot be regarded without interest . Time has been when such a scene would have called up all the romances and chivalrous ...
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Old Humphrey. lawful authority ; had power never exercised oppression within its walls ; and had none but the guilty been fettered in its gloomy dungeons , I should gaze around me with more pleasure than I now feel ; but the records of ...
Old Humphrey. lawful authority ; had power never exercised oppression within its walls ; and had none but the guilty been fettered in its gloomy dungeons , I should gaze around me with more pleasure than I now feel ; but the records of ...
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... never again return ! There is a loneliness , a disconso- lateness in the dash of the water , as the tide rolls in , that makes one melancholy . A sluice beneath the Traitors ' Gate supplies the broad , deep moat with water from the ...
... never again return ! There is a loneliness , a disconso- lateness in the dash of the water , as the tide rolls in , that makes one melancholy . A sluice beneath the Traitors ' Gate supplies the broad , deep moat with water from the ...
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