 | 1846 - 608 pages
...strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...-with green ; its corridors open to the day ; the longgrass growing in its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 96 pages
...strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit: chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit: chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | 1846 - 756 pages
...strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...connected with his own affections and afflictions. To •". it crumbling there, an inch a year ; its Is and arches overgrown with green ; :orridore open... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
...desolation, strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...in its porches; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit : chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...in its porches; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit — chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
 | William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1868 - 228 pages
...utter desolation, strike upon the stranger like a softened sorrow, and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight not...connected with his own affections and afflictions. It is the most impressive, the most stately, the most solemn, grand, majestic, mournful sight conceivable.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 662 pages
...desolation, strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not immediately connected with his own affections and a fllictions. To see it crumbling there, an inch a year ; its walls and arches overgrown with green... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - 1871 - 486 pages
...strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not immediately connected with his OWH affections and afflictions. "To see it crumbling there, an inch a year; its walls and arches overgrown... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...strike upon the stranger the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not...its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit — chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds... | |
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Its solitude, its awful beauty, and its utter desolation, strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not immediately connected with his own affections... 
