Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

By William Beckford

Release : 1844-01-01

Genre : Fiction for Young Adults, Books, Young Adult

Kind : ebook

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This universal stillness was the more pleasing, when I looked back upon those scenes of horror and outcry which filled London but a week or two ago, when danger was not confined to night only, and the environs of the capital, but haunted our streets at midday. Here, I could wander over an entire city; stray by the port, and venture through the most obscure alleys, without a single apprehension; without beholding a sky red and portentous with the light of fires, or hearing the confused and terrifying murmurs of shouts and groans, mingled with the reports of artillery

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

By William Beckford

Release : 1844-01-01

Genre : Fiction for Young Adults, Books, Young Adult

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
This universal stillness was the more pleasing, when I looked back upon those scenes of horror and outcry which filled London but a week or two ago, when danger was not confined to night only, and the environs of the capital, but haunted our streets at midday. Here, I could wander over an entire city; stray by the port, and venture through the most obscure alleys, without a single apprehension; without beholding a sky red and portentous with the light of fires, or hearing the confused and terrifying murmurs of shouts and groans, mingled with the reports of artillery

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