Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its Neighbourhood |
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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 mercies 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 dead ...
... never pass the place without more than common thankfulness to the Father of mercies 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 dead ...
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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 in- terest . Time has been when such a scene would have called up all the romance 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 in- terest . Time has been when such a scene would have called up all the romance and chivalrous ...
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... never exercised oppression with- in 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 time have handed down to us much that ...
... never exercised oppression with- in 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 time have handed down to us much that ...
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... never again return ! There is a loneliness , a disconsolateness in the dash of the wa- ter , as the tide rolls in , that makes one melancholy . A sluice beneath the Traitors ' Gate supplies the broad deep moat with water from the river ...
... never again return ! There is a loneliness , a disconsolateness in the dash of the wa- ter , as the tide rolls in , that makes one melancholy . A sluice beneath the Traitors ' Gate supplies the broad deep moat with water from the river ...
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