...of death in action close on life — here, they lower our dear brother down a foot or two: here, sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an...and barbarism walked this boastful island together. To read those last sentences is to experience the birth of what would become a dominant rhetorical...

...death in action close on life — here, they lower our dear brother down a foot or two : here, sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption : an...island together. Come night, come darkness, for you cannot come too soon, or stay too long, by such a place as this ! Come, straggling lights into the...

...agreeable . . . With houses looking on ... here, they lower our dear brother down a foot or two; here, sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sick bedside: a shameful testimony to future ages, how civilisation and barbarism walked this boastful...

...death in action close on life — here, they lower our dear brother down a foot or two : here, sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption ; an...not come too soon, or stay too long, by such a place is this ! Come, straggling lights into the windows of the ugly houses ; and you who do iniquity therein,...

...death in action close on life — here, they lower our dear brother down a foot or two : here, sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption : an...sick-bedside : a shameful testimony to future ages, how civilisation and barbarism walked this boastful island together. Come night, come darkness, for you...

...fruit; but so long as fallow graveyards are allowed to pollute the earth he will continue to be sown " in corruption, to be raised in corruption, an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside." The Ancient Romans, to whom all later civilization owes so much in the way of just laws and suggestions...

...gives access to the iron gate . . . here, they lower our dear brother down a foot or two : here, sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sick bedside: a shameful testimony to future ages, how civilization and barbarism walked this boastful...

...of death in action close on life — here they lower our dead brother down a foot or two, here sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption ; an avenging ghost at many a sick bedside ; a shameful testimony to future ages, how civilization and barbarism walked this boastful...

...mind that his own subsequent description of the slums - "Come night, come darkness, for you cannot come too soon, or stay too long, by such a place as this!" (Bleak House, chap, n) - sounds like Little Swills parodying East-End melodrama. For Dickens, who constituted...