The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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Page viii
... thought of : Buried Alive ; The Thread of Gold , or The Doctor of Beauvais ; but it was in March , 1859 , that he decided on A Tale of Two Cities . He meant to put the story into his magazine , and also , for another public , into ...
... thought of : Buried Alive ; The Thread of Gold , or The Doctor of Beauvais ; but it was in March , 1859 , that he decided on A Tale of Two Cities . He meant to put the story into his magazine , and also , for another public , into ...
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... thought , conception externalised itself as hallucination . He would think of the girl of the hour " till she actually came to meet me , " he told Eckermann . To possess this vigour of phantasia , and to communicate it in a secondary ...
... thought , conception externalised itself as hallucination . He would think of the girl of the hour " till she actually came to meet me , " he told Eckermann . To possess this vigour of phantasia , and to communicate it in a secondary ...
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... thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way . In the midst of them , the hangman , ever busy and ever worse than useless , was in constant requisition ; now , stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals ; now ...
... thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way . In the midst of them , the hangman , ever busy and ever worse than useless , was in constant requisition ; now , stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals ; now ...
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... thought to himself , that Friday night in November , one thousand seven hundred and seventy- > five , lumbering up Shooter's Hill , as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail , beating his feet , and keeping an eye and a ...
... thought to himself , that Friday night in November , one thousand seven hundred and seventy- > five , lumbering up Shooter's Hill , as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail , beating his feet , and keeping an eye and a ...
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... thoughts suggested . Tellson's Bank had a run upon it in the mail . As the bank passenger - with an arm drawn through the leathern strap , which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against the next passenger , and driving him ...
... thoughts suggested . Tellson's Bank had a run upon it in the mail . As the bank passenger - with an arm drawn through the leathern strap , which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against the next passenger , and driving him ...
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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!