The Dream of Eugene Aram: The Murderer |
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altogether impro ascer bable and unprecedented beg the hearing blood BRANSTON AND WRIGHT call upon malignity called evidence adduced cell CHARLES TILT Clarke is sug conceive my notice concerted no schemes contradicts every particular criterion which incontestably dead depravity not inferior DREAM OF EUGENE ENGRAVED ON WOOD Epping Hunt Epsom Races EUGENE ARAM Fenchurch Street FLEET STREET four-and-twenty Gardens and Menagerie gle deviation head so unlikely heard hermit hermitage honestly laborious human skeleton immediate inquiry set impertinent or unseasonable incontestably distinguishes India Paper last with Thompson lord lordship's macerated malevolence could entertain ment to engage mighty wind moral obligation totally murder obligation totally perishes oblige some malice Octavo Price probity is lost profligacy precipitately projected no violence reduced to crutches regard of probity satisfy some avarice single and unskilful skeleton Sprite supply some luxury support some indolence THOMAS HOOD thought impertinent titute of friends volumes William Thompson WOOD BY BRANSTON
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Page 21 - He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain • For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain !
Page 19 - Then leaping on his feet upright, Some moody turns he took; Now up the mead, then down the mead, And past a shady nook : And lo, he saw a little boy That pored...
Page 15 - Farther, my lord : — it is not yet out of living memory that at a little distance from Knaresborough, in a field, part of the manor of the worthy and patriot baronet who does that borough the honour to represent it in parliament, were found, in digging for gravel, not one human skeleton only, but five or six, deposited side by side, with each an urn placed at his head, as your lordship knows was usual in ancient interments.
Page 17 - Like sportive deer they coursed about, And shouted as they ran, — Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only boyhood can...
Page 11 - My lord," began Aram, in that remarkable defence still extant, and still considered as wholly unequalled from the lips of one defending his own cause ; — my lord, I know not whether it is of right, or through some indulgence of your lordship, that I am allowed the liberty, at this bar, and at this time, to attempt a defence ; incapable and uninstructed as I am to speak. Since, while I see BO many eyes upon me.