bookworms (15)in #haredale • 6 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #6/376“And that fifteen or twenty years ago stood in a park five times as broad, which with other and richer property has bit by bit changed hands and dwindled away—more’s the pity!”…bookworms (15)in #staring • 11 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #5/376Finding that his look was not returned, or indeed observed by the person to whom it was addressed, John gradually concentrated the whole power of his eyes into one focus, and…bookworms (15)in #prophecy • 15 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #4/376The evening with which we have to do, was neither a summer nor an autumn one, but the twilight of a day in March, when the wind howled dismally among the bare branches of the…bookworms (15)in #maypoles • 22 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #3/376CHAPTER THE FIRSTINthe year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London— measuring from the Standard in Cornhill*or…bookworms (15)in #popery • 26 days ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #2/376But perhaps we do not know it in our hearts too well, to profit by even so humble an example as the ‘No Popery’ riots of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty.“However imperfectly those…bookworms (15)in #ravenless • 3 months ago[Literature] Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge - with the original illustrations #1/376PREFACEASit is Mr. Waterton’s opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offer a few words here about mine.The raven in this story is a compound of two…