The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... strong for romantic treatment . Nothing can add to the native romance of the conquest of Anahuac by Cortés ; fancy lags in the trail of fact . The poignancy and horror of the Revolution outdo all mere imaginative effort to cope with ...
... strong for romantic treatment . Nothing can add to the native romance of the conquest of Anahuac by Cortés ; fancy lags in the trail of fact . The poignancy and horror of the Revolution outdo all mere imaginative effort to cope with ...
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... strong desire was upon me then , to embody it in my own person ; and I traced out in my fancy , the state of mind of which it would necessitate the presentation to an observant spectator , with particular care and interest . As the idea ...
... strong desire was upon me then , to embody it in my own person ; and I traced out in my fancy , the state of mind of which it would necessitate the presentation to an observant spectator , with particular care and interest . As the idea ...
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... strong - rooms underground , at Tellson's , with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger ( and it was not a little that he knew about them ) , opened before him , and he went in among them with the great ...
... strong - rooms underground , at Tellson's , with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger ( and it was not a little that he knew about them ) , opened before him , and he went in among them with the great ...
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... strong - rooms , the real express sent after him , and the real message returned , would all be there . Out of the midst of them , the ghostly face would rise , and he would accost it again . " Buried how long ? " " Almost eighteen ...
... strong - rooms , the real express sent after him , and the real message returned , would all be there . Out of the midst of them , the ghostly face would rise , and he would accost it again . " Buried how long ? " " Almost eighteen ...
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... strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it , as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea . A little fishing was done in the port , and a quantity of strolling about by night , and ...
... strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it , as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea . A little fishing was done in the port , and a quantity of strolling about by night , and ...
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Page 12 - WONDERFUL fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!