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| Charles Dickens - 1848 - Страниц: 730
...town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...returned. Food for the hospitals, the churchyards, the prisons, the river, fever, madness, vice, and death, — they passed on to the monster, roaring in... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1848 - Страниц: 510
...town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...returned. Food for the hospitals, the churchyards, the prisons, the river, fever, madness, vice, and death — they passed on to the monster, roaring in the... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1848 - Страниц: 752
...town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would he but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...travellers crept past, but always, as she thought, in one direction—always towards the town. Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, towards which... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1852 - Страниц: 544
...town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...returned. Food for the hospitals, the churchyards, the prisons, the river, fever, madness, vice, and death — they passed on to the monster, roaring in the... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1867 - Страниц: 576
...town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...angry weather, and looking as if the very elements rejtcted them. Day after day, such travellers crept past, but always, as she thought, in one direction... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1869 - Страниц: 558
...town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...returned. Food for the hospitals, the church-yards, the prisons, the river, fever, madness, vice, and death, — they passed on to the monster, roaring in... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1871 - Страниц: 500
...town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...returned. Food for the hospitals, the churchyards, the prisons, the river, fever, madness, vice, and death, — they passed on to the monster, roaring in... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1872 - Страниц: 564
...town before them, us if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...rejected them. Day after day, such travellers crept past, bat always, as she thought, in oue direction — always towards the town. Swallowed up in one phase... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1872 - Страниц: 368
...town before them, as if foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea, or as a grain of sea-sand on the shore, went shrinking...the very elements rejected them. Day after day such travelers crept past, but .always, as she thought, in one direction — always toward the town. Swallowed... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - Страниц: 584
...comers and speed before them to :he busy port. — American Notts, Chap. 5. CITY— Traveller* to the. t all my constitution. They got rheumatic about the legs and arms, and went into kitchens and othe owards the town. Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, towards which they seemed impelled... | |
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