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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between p...

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...PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I DO NOT FIND IT EASY to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of hav- ing finished it, to refer ... ... pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I l... ...to the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I wer... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...civilities nothing has passed! You talk of admiration. What am I to do? If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? What am I ... ...ed. As you are in no hurry, then, said Steerforth, come home with me to Highgate, and stay a day or two. You will be pleased with my mother she is ... ...fellow like you to show them to, Copperfield and then we ll journey out to Highgate by the coach. I could hardly believe but that I was in a dream, a... ... it was dusk when the stage-coach stopped with us at an old brick house at Highgate on the summit of the hill. An elderly lady, though not very far ad...

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...r, if you had been at all ac quainted with the wants and necessities of the people who indulged in them, I cannot imagine possible. That a Prelate of... ...ded to illustrate; but I claim for them one merit — their truth and freedom from exaggeration. I may have fallen short of the mark, but I have never ... ...me, to be injustice on the part of others, I hope I have carefully abstained from committing it myself. I am, My Lord, Your Lordship’s most obedient, ... ...ervant, TIMOTHY SPARKS. JUNE, 1836. CHAPTER I AS IT IS T here are few things from which I derive greater plea sure, than walking through some of the p... ...o shake their heads with an air of profound wis dom, and tell you that poor people dress too well now a days; that when they were children, folks kn... ... a great deal of very unnecessary cant about the over dressing of the common people. There is not a manu facturer or tradesman in existence, who woul... ... ens, and an unwonted glow rises in her face. They are going to Hampstead or Highgate, to spend their holiday afternoon in some place where they can s...

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...GS in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is on... ...parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage... ...e iron bedstead, rustled; the pale face of a young woman was raised feebly from the pillow; and a faint voice imperfectly articulated the words, ‘Let ... ...en were neat and clean to behold, when they went; and what more would the people have! It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produc... ...s every night,’ said another gentleman in a gruff voice; ‘and pray for the people who feed you, and take care of you—like a Christian.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ st... ...stian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of him. But he hadn’t, because nobody had tau... ...he mail coaches which were whirling out of town, until they passed through Highgate archway; when the foremost traveller stopped and called impatientl... ...nd walked rap idly away. He went through Islington; strode up the hill at Highgate on which stands the stone in honour of Whittington; turned down to... ...ighgate on which stands the stone in honour of Whittington; turned down to Highgate Hill, unsteady of purpose, and uncertain where to go; struck off t...

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...y. 3 Thackeray George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray Reprinted from the W estminster Review for June, 1840. (No 66.) A ccusations of ingra... ... are introduced to him along with his beard) thrust away all other society from him. Some old friends remain, it is true, but these are become as a ha... ...ion splendid” which has accompanied our steps in our journey daily farther from the east, fades away and dies into the light of common day. And what a... ... Fleet Street—bright, enchanted pal- aces, which George Cruikshank used to people with grinning, fantastical imps, and merry, harmless sprites,—where ... ...ived the points of humor with a general sympathizing roar. Where are these people now? Y ou never hear any laughing at HB.; his pictures are a great d... ...ied by his pencil. Is not Whittington sitting yet 10 George Cruikshank on Highgate hill, and poor Cinderella (in that sweetest of all fairy stories) ... ...he most certainly believed, along with the 11 Thackeray great body of the people whom he represents, that the Prin- cess was the most spotless, pure-...

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... 1 Chapter 1 ‘TAKE OFF that mute, do!’ cried Louisa, snatching her fingers from the piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked s... ...he piano keys, and turning abruptly to the violinist. Helena looked slowly from her music. ‘My dear Louisa,’ she replied, ‘it would be simply unen- du... ...ena, who seemed weary and stupefied, but still sententious. Louisa drooped from her bristling defiance. ‘At any rate,’ she said, scolding in tones too... ...e looked at them. You would linger hours over a blue weed, and let all the people down the road go by. Folks are better than a gar- den in full blosso... ...side Siegmund’s lean portmanteau in the white dust of the lum- ber-room in Highgate. It was worth twenty pounds, but Beatrice had not yet roused herse... ...ter of the band, the movement of scarlet, blithe soldiers beyond the park. People were drifting brightly from church. How could it be Sunday! It was n... ...id curiously. ‘Why? Well—yes—I think I can understand its being so to some people. It’s something like the call of the horn across the sea to T ristan... ...ke of his grandchildren. So Beatrice was set up in a fairly large house in Highgate, was equipped with two maids, and gentlemen were invited to come a...

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...t of the old duties at Greenleaf or the summer afternoons when I went home from school with my portfolio under my arm, and my childish shadow at my si... ... a condition can quite understand what I mean or what painful unrest arose from this source. For the same reason I am almost afraid to hint at that ti... ... which I was one of the beads! And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a pa... ... do, did she think? I mildly asked her. “Draw,” returned Miss Flite. “Draw people on, my dear. Draw peace out of them. Sense out of them. Good looks o... .... Saved many lives, never com plained in hunger and thirst, wrapped naked people in his spare clothes, took the lead, showed them what to do, gov er... ..., I so ad mired and loved what he had done, that I envied the storm worn people who had fallen at his feet and blessed him as their preserver. I cou... ...ing about eight or nine. I heard of her first at the archway toll, over at Highgate, but couldn’t make quite sure. Traced her all along, on and off. P...

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...ool and St. Bartholomew?s Hospital bound it on the west; Smithfield and Long Lane on the north; Aldersgate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eastern part of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull-and-Mouth Street separates it from Butcher Lane, and the regions of Newgate. Over this little territory, thus bounded and designated, the great dome of St. Pa...

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...ong Lane on the north; Aldersgate Street, like an arm of the sea, divides it from the eastern part of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull and Mo... ...t of the city; whilst the yawning gulf of Bull and Mouth Street separates it from Butcher Lane, and the regions of Newgate. Over this little territory... ...n with an air of motherly protection. This quarter de rives its appellation from having been, in ancient times, the residence of the Dukes of Brittan... ...des. For some time Little Britain became the great mart of learning, and was peopled by the busy and prolific race of booksellers; these also graduall... ...e page of tribulation, they have spread great gloom through the minds of the people of Little Brit “Little Britain” Washington Irving 6 ain. They ... ... and see the world. He has therefore made sev eral excursions to Hampstead, Highgate, and other neigh boring towns, where he has passed whole aftern... ...of late; but they were for a long time prevailing themes of controversy, the people of Little Britain being extremely solicitous of fu nereal honors ...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...Hebrew Old- clothes;’ wrestling, with impotent impetuosity, to free itself from the baleful imbroglio, as if that had been its one function in life: w... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...ing. This is the ordinary Welsh village; but there are excep- tions, where people of more cultivated tastes have been led to settle, and Llanblethian ... ...ost important foreign home he visited was that of Coleridge on the Hill of Highgate,—if it were not rather a foreign shrine and Dodona-Oracle, as he t... ...portant modifications! CHAPTER VIII COLERIDGE Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill, in those years, looking down on London and its smoke-tumult,... ..._, girt in mystery and enigma; his Dodona oak-grove (Mr. Gilman’s house at Highgate) whispering strange things, uncertain whether oracles or jargon. T...

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...N, at low water, Mr. Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the pictur- esque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine... ... part. Drugs. My nervous system... . They are all very well for the run of people. It’s hard to explain. I dare not take … sufficiently powerful drugs... ...ances, prompted him to keep the conver- sation going. “I’ve never suffered from sleeplessness myself,” he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but i... ...he said in a tone of commonplace gossip, “but in those cases I have known, people have usually found something—” “I dare make no experiments.” He spok... ...men were silent. “Exercise?” suggested Isbister diffidently, with a glance from his interlocutor’s face of wretchedness to the touring cos- tume he wo... ...and I jumped on to process. Those posters on the Cliffs at Dover are by my people.” “Good posters,” admitted the solicitor, “though I was sorry to see... ... Hills rose blue and faint; to the north and nearer, the sharp contours of Highgate and Muswell Hill were simi- larly jagged. And all over the country... ...ht have given the same sensations. He recognised the Council House and the Highgate Ridge. And then he looked straight down between his feet. For a mo...

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...rsity. 3 Charles Dickens THE HOLLY-TREE THREE BRANCHES by Charles Dickens From the 1894 Chapman and Hall “Christmas Stories” edition FIRST BRANCH—MYS... ...some account of the innumerable places I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called upon or received, the innumerable social evasions ... ...s once snowed up. It happened in the memorable year when I parted for ever from Angela Leath, whom I was shortly to have married, on making the discov... ... have married, on making the discovery that she preferred my bosom friend. From our school-days I had freely admitted Edwin, in my own mind, to be far... ...ith cold; the white-topped houses; the bleak, star-lighted sky; the market people and other early stragglers, trotting to circulate their almost froze... ...age-coaches; which I occasionally find my- self, in common with some other people, affecting to lament now, but which everybody dreaded as a very seri... ... mounting straight up high into the rarified air; and we were rattling for Highgate Archway over the hardest ground I have ever heard the ring of iron...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ..., and panted to escape from her. After a brief space, she rebelled against Highgate and Hornsey ut- terly. She would go into the Park. Mrs. Bute knew ...

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... modest retirement in London, by a friend of mine, and given to me. He had from the first, as Sir Hugh Evans says of Anne Page, ‘good gifts’, which he... ...e superiority of his genius, to walk off unmolested with the dog’s dinner, from before his face. He was rapidly rising in acquirements and virtues, wh... ... a drunken man’—which I never did, having (un fortunately) none but sober people at hand. But I could hardly have respected him more, whatever the st... ...Policeman might have been. Once, I met him unexpectedly, about half a mile from my house, walking down the middle of a public street, attended by a pr... ...nce, sir!’ returned his father, ‘what do you mean by talking, when you see people that are more than two or three times your age, sitting still and si... ...n the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till... ...ildest speculators, there had sprung up no long rows of streets connecting Highgate with Whitechapel, no assemblages of palaces in the swampy levels, ... ...ng word with charming Dolly V arden. He went out by Islington and so on to Highgate, and sat on many stones and gates, but there were no voices in the... ... away to Lord Mansfield’s country seat at Caen Wood, between Hampstead and Highgate; bent upon destroying that house likewise, and lighting up a great...

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... elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But th...

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...e extremely to be called—“Scientists.” They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and ... ...ectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth. They were of course quite undistinguished l... ...ich I believe was the voice of Professor Redwood, and there was a sizzling from the lantern and another sound that kept me there, still out of curiosi... ...s not under- stand it either. But really you know many of these scientific people understand the meaning of their own papers quite well: it is simply ... ... it, because as a general rule I do not think it is at all interesting for people to tell each other about their dreams. By a singular coincidence Red... ...e from the weekly storm of cleaning she would not forego. And having known people addicted to drink, she re- garded his solicitude for distinction in ... ...hen again towards London, and came by the cemeteries and over the crest of Highgate about midday into view of the greatness of the city again. He turn...

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... was so rich in the gifts which make tea- parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, pro... ...elderly distinguished people successful, that she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome business of teacups and bread... ...ss which inevitably attends the entrance of a stranger into a room full of people much at their ease, and all launched upon sentences. At the same tim... ... draw- ing-room seemed very remote and still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on ... ...still; and the faces of the elderly people were mellowed, at some distance from each other, and had a bloom on them owing to the fact that the air in ... ...e- ing much about the same age and both under thirty, they were prohibited from the use of a great many convenient phrases which launch conversation i... ...n the least ridiculous. We’re a respectable middle-class family, living at Highgate.” “We don’t live at Highgate, but we’re middle class too, I suppos... ...ightsbridge returned to him, and he was soon speeding in the train towards Highgate. Although thus supported by the knowledge of his new possession of... ...sets now?” she repeated. “Do you find sunsets now, Mr. Popham?” “I live at Highgate,” he replied. “At Highgate? Yes, Highgate has its charms; your Unc...

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...s almost my own master at all times. As I did not care, however, to get to Highgate before one or two o clock in the day, and as we had another little... ...ush an ecclesiastical of- fence. It was an amusing case; and sent me up to Highgate, on the box of the stage-coach, think- ing about the Commons, and ... ...s gaunt black eyes and searching brow, intent on mine; or passing suddenly from mine to Steerforth s; or compre- hending both of us at once. In this l... ...pre- hending both of us at once. In this lynx-like scrutiny she was so far from faltering when she saw I observed it, that at such a time she only fix... ...ome of our old exercises on the lawn behind the house, I saw her face pass from window to window, like a wandering light, until it fixed itself in one... ...ied about? she replied, with provoking coldness. Oh! It was only whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution is that the phr... ... It s as good a phrase as another, said Steerforth. Thank you: whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater... ...re like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater danger than people not so circum- stanced, supposing any serious cause of vari- ance to... ...inting to call on him next day at ten in the forenoon. This I addressed to Highgate for in that place, so memorable to me, he lived David Copperfiel...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ... work which she invariably pre- sented to her scholars, on their departure from the Mall. On the cover was inserted a copy of “Lines addressed to a yo... ...the wide world who would take the trouble off her hands. What causes young people to “come out,” but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them ... ..., and panted to escape from her. After a brief space, she rebelled against Highgate and Hornsey ut- terly. She would go into the Park. Mrs. Bute knew ...

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...self (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child’s step from the man’s, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging... ...rom the man’s, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread... ... wider until at last it joins the broad vast sea where some halt to rest from heavy loads and think as they look over the parapet that to smoke and ... ... the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, ... ...ew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to bein... ...ie with each other in vehe mence and volubility. Mrs George remarked that people would talk, that people had often said this to her be fore, that Mr... ...re would you run to, Dick?’ ‘I don’t know’ returned Mr Swiveller. ‘Towards Highgate, I suppose. Perhaps the bells might strike up “Turn again Swivelle...

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...a reer of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be in volved, is deri ved from the perusal of the foll ow ing ent ry in th e Transactions of the P... ...cience, f rom the production to which they have just adverted—no less than from the unwearied researches of Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., in Ho... ...e unwearied researches of Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., in Hornsey, Highgate, Brixton, and Camberwell—they cannot but entertain a li vely sense... ... f rom car rying the speculations of that learned man into a wider field, from extending his travels, and, consequentl y, enlarging his sphere of obs... ...n observer of human na ture, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘ Ah, so am I. Most people are when they’ve little to do and less to get. Poet, Sir?’ ‘My frien... ...’ said the stranger, ‘fun presently—nobs not come yet—queer place—dockyard people of upper rank don’t know dockyard people of lower rank—dockyard peop... ...h a face expressive of the most intense solemnity, dancing (as a good many people do) as if a quadrille were not a thing to be laughed at, but a sever...

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...e originated. In such mouths I might have coupled it with an apt quotation from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My nature is subdued To what it works i... ...true, and within the truth. The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who ... ...on who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end. At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit... ...the toes and fingers of his shivering little ‘prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peep ing over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,... ...ses. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Sc... ...pleasantry that particularly tickled the maces, bags, and purses. How many people out of the suit Jarndyce and Jarndyce has stretched forth its unwhol... ...ing about eight or nine. I heard of her first at the archway toll, over at Highgate, but couldn’t make quite sure. Traced her all along, on and off. P...

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...eries of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume....

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...pace and Time, no short story of mine of the slight- est merit is excluded from this volume. Many of very ques- tionable merit find a place; it is an ... ...ears I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the la... ...well as to myself, and in spite of the kindliest encouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short s... ...sh, and Mr. Frank Harris was not only printing good short stories by other people, but writing still better ones himself in the dignified pages of the... ...d better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked them. That... ...me. I make no claims for them and no apology; they will be read as long as people read them. Things written either live or die; unless it be for a pla... ...cene. The thing happened at the Harlow T echnical College, just beyond the Highgate Archway. He was alone in the larger laboratory when the thing happ... ...s in tears, and her voice was a little thick. She had just re- turned from Highgate. Her mind seemed occupied with her own prospects and the honourabl...

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...t a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if ... ...han our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from ... ...inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only es- cape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. A... ...ons of miles it was from us—more than forty millions of miles of void. Few people realise the im- mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material... ...elow in the darkness were Ottershaw and Chertsey and all their hundreds of people, sleeping in peace. He was full of speculation that night about the ... ...hotograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise ... ...n possession of the whole of Lon- don was confirmed. They had been seen at Highgate, and even, it was said, at Neasden. But they did not come into my ... ...look at the lights of which he had spoken that blazed so greenly along the Highgate hills. At first I stared unintelligently across the London valley.... ...e west, and then gazed long and earnestly at the darkness of Hampstead and Highgate. I remained a very long time upon the roof, wondering at the grote...

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... to distinguish what is true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such ... ...h two or three authors have lately procured for their works of this nature from the public, will probably serve as an encouragement to many others to... ... calumny, and to the prejudice of the characters of many worthy and honest people. I question not but the ingenious author of the Spectator was prin... ...r was principally induced to prefix Greek and Latin mottos to every paper, from the same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribb... ...probation. “Why now, that’s friendly,” said he; “d—n me, I hate to see two people bear ill will to one another after they have had a tussel. The only ... ...ion besides his good offices in assisting at the perfor mance. The good people now ranged themselves round the kitchen fire, where good humour seem... ...power of liquor to bestow. Our company were now arrived within a mile of Highgate, when the stranger turned short upon Jones, and pulling out a pist...

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...n, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in the City as she might be. This is the more rema...

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...he long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their emp loyer. They were bound to a highly meri torious lady (na... ...is celebrated cat. There is also strong reason to suppose that they rang the Highgate bells for him with their own hands. The misguided young men who ... ...n hands. The misguided young men who thus shirked their duty to the mistress from whom they had received many favours, were actuated by the low idea o... ...d he walk? He wouldn’t walk. He swore it by this milestone! It was the fifth from London, so far had they pen etrated into the North. Submitting to t... ... ture and art combined, it yet glided over dangerous heights in the sight of people looking up from fields and roads, as smoothly and unreally as a li... ...it fired itself in like a volley of cannon balls, swooped away four country people with nosegays, and three men of business with portmanteaus, and fi... ... the Circus was last week. The temperature changed, the dialect changed, the people changed, faces got sharper, manner got shorter, eyes got shrewder ...

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...wept round in an unbroken curve at each landing, forming an inclined plane from the top to the bottom of the house. A young voice, apparently mimickin... ...bottom of the house. A young voice, apparently mimicking someone, now came from above, saying, “We will take the Etudes de la Velocite next, if you pl... ...utter confusion ensued. Then came a reply, in a tone of honeyed sweetness, from Miss Wylie: “Did you call us, DEAR Miss Wilson?” “Yes. Come up here, i... ...makes me feel like an author; and so in Christian duty I always read other people’s. Listen to poor Sarah’s tale of guilt. ‘1st October. I am very sor... ...at her daughter had taken the hint. “You had better go and wash your face. People may call, and I presume you don’t wish to receive them in that pligh... ...eps a re- cording angel inside her little head, and it is so full of other people’s faults, written in large hand and read through a magnifying glass,... ...e’s affairs. CHAPTER X THE REMAINS OF H ENRIETTA TREFUSIS were interred in Highgate Cemetery the day before Christmas Eve. Three noblemen sent their c... ...r their acrimony, they dined amicably together. The monument was placed in Highgate Cemetery by a small band of workmen whom Trefusis found out of em-...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ...oleridge, that Mr. Gillman never says one word upon the event of the great Highgate experi- ment for leaving off laudanum, though Coleridge came to Mr... ... have reformed him; and lo! he cor- rupts Gillman. S. T. Coleridge visited Highgate by way of being converted from the heresy of opium; and the issue ... ...what will not scandal say?) that a hogshead of opium goes up daily through Highgate tunnel. Surely one corroboration of our hypoth- esis may be found ...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar... ... of a dial; a gong strikes: the South African mid-weekly mail is in at the Highgate Receiving Towers. That is all. It reminds one comi- cally of the t... ...ite fleece. For an instant she gleams like a star ere she drops toward the Highgate Re- ceiving Towers. “The Bombay Mail,” says Captain Hodgson, and l...

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...land; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come i...

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... Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought hom... ...which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but a... ... have lived to see practised since. But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from ... ...l was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and ... ...rtality in the usual manner, thus – Plague, 2. Parishes infected, 1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the... ...ther house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, and the weekly bill... ...t seems when they left Islington they intended to have gone north, away to Highgate, but were stopped at Holloway , and there they would not let them ...

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...s; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ...ay be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught f... ... occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmingham, per- suading t... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...lliam of Nassau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain... ...hich his journey might take would be of no consequence; and he might go to Highgate, to Edinburgh, to Constantinople, nay, down a well, and no soul wo...