It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there •were no back rooms; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top. Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Seite 391herausgegeben von - 1856Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Charles Dickens - 1867 - 550 Seiten
...is gone now, and the world is none the worse without it. It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back,...defaulters to excise or customs, who had incurred tines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door, closing... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 578 Seiten
...is gone now, and the world is none the worse without it. It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back,...high walls duly spiked at top. Itself a close and confmed prison for debtors, it contained within it a much closer and more confmed jail for smugglers.... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1873 - 360 Seiten
...is gone now, and the world is none the worse without it. It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there were no back-rooms; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top. Itself a... | |
| 1887 - 374 Seiten
...It is gone now, and the world is none the worse for it. It was an oblong pile of barrack buildings partitioned into squalid houses, standing back to back, so that there were no back rooms, and used as a prison for debtors and for defaulters under the Excise laws. In the adjoining skittle-ground... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1890 - 516 Seiten
...is gone now, and the world is none the worse without it. It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there were no back-rooms ; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top. Itself a... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1891 - 594 Seiten
...is gone now, and the world is none the worse without it. It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there were no back-rooms ; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top. Itself a... | |
| Alfred Trumble - 1896 - 214 Seiten
...the Marshalsea Prison. It was an oblong * pile of barrack buildings, partitioned into squalid rooms standing back to back, so that there were no back rooms ; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed by high walls duly spiked on the top. Itself a close and confined prison for debtors, it contained... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1899 - 650 Seiten
...is gone now, and the world is none the worse without it. It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back,...high walls duly spiked at top. Itself a close and confmed prison for debtors, it contained within it a much closer and more confined jail for smugglers.... | |
| London Topographical Society - 1899 - 52 Seiten
...was an oblong pile of barrack buildings, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back — environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top." — PN IV.— MARSHALSEA PRISON. No. 16, FETTER LANE (JOHN DRYDEN'S HOUSE). THIS house was pulled down... | |
| Walter Jerrold - 1901 - 370 Seiten
...is gone now, and the world is none the worse without it. It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back,...much closer and more confined jail for smugglers." Dickens had lively recollections of his boyish visits to the Marshalsea, where his father was for a... | |
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