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... visitor draws upon his memory , and revels in the knowledge he has acquired from the dusty records of departed days .. What glorious gifts are memory and imagination ! By these I once more build up the princely pile , long since ...
... visitor draws upon his memory , and revels in the knowledge he has acquired from the dusty records of departed days .. What glorious gifts are memory and imagination ! By these I once more build up the princely pile , long since ...
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... visitors through the different armouries . There are forty of these men in the Tower , all habited like the royal yeomen of the guard : and besides them there are many other officers , among which are " a gen- tleman goaler , " and four ...
... visitors through the different armouries . There are forty of these men in the Tower , all habited like the royal yeomen of the guard : and besides them there are many other officers , among which are " a gen- tleman goaler , " and four ...
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... visitors before me , and their admi- ration and praise are unbounded . One timid female alone has whispered the word " dreadful ! " and dreadful they are : cross - bows , daggers , swords , pikes , and hal- berds , hand - guns ...
... visitors before me , and their admi- ration and praise are unbounded . One timid female alone has whispered the word " dreadful ! " and dreadful they are : cross - bows , daggers , swords , pikes , and hal- berds , hand - guns ...
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Old Humphrey. attract the attention and secure the admiration of the several visitors of the cathedral . The soldier ... visitor . The man of letters comes here , a pilgrim to the shrine of talent , and pays a willing homage to departed ...
Old Humphrey. attract the attention and secure the admiration of the several visitors of the cathedral . The soldier ... visitor . The man of letters comes here , a pilgrim to the shrine of talent , and pays a willing homage to departed ...
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... visitors , that excites something of a similar kind in our own hearts . The wonderment of the children at all around them ; their awful fear at the sight of the beasts ; their unfeigned delight in gazing on the birds ; and their ...
... visitors , that excites something of a similar kind in our own hearts . The wonderment of the children at all around them ; their awful fear at the sight of the beasts ; their unfeigned delight in gazing on the birds ; and their ...
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