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George Cruikshank's Table-book (1845)

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 247

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ave the faint cries of the Thames bargemen swearingin the distance. HOW, WHEN, AND WHERE, BOOKS SHOULD BE READ. 205 To sympathise with the sufferings of Robinson Crusoe you should go out in awager-boat, and get wrecked with one shirt on the Isle of Dogs ; there build yourself ahut with the remnants… … Seat yourself in the pit of the Victoria Theatre, and read Mrs. Radcliffesmysterious works. See, the inquisition room is full of masks ; a dismal lamp hangsfrom the ceiling ; the dread executioner is in the room with his pincers. Between thefolds of a sepulchral curtain peeps the screw of the…

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