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It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of...more

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He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in the suit, and hoping against hope to dise...more

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My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our ...more

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To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at s...more