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" Breaking from those trembling hands which every moment more enfeebled, he ordered his servants to bear me into the grated room at the end of the eastern cloister. You cannot but remember the dismal place. Half sunk in ruin, overhung with ivy and trees... "
The recess; or, A tale of other times, by the author of The chapter of accidents - Page 143
by Sophia Lee - 1792
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The Recess: Or, A Tale of Other Times ...

Sophia Lee - 1804 - 312 pages
...mistress." Breaking from those trembling hands which every moment more enfeebled, he ordered his servants to bear me into the grated room at the end of the eastern cloister. You cannot but remember the dismal place. Half sunk in ruin, overhung with ivy and...
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Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century

George E. Haggerty - 1998 - 228 pages
...haunts (as it were) of her childhood. She writes to her sister: "[Lord Burleigh] ordered his servants to bear me into the grated room at the end of the eastern cloister. You cannot but remember the dismal place. Half sunk in ruin, and overhung with ivy,...
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The Recess, Or, A Tale of Other Times

430 pages
...mistress." Breaking from those trembling hands, which every moment more enfeebled, he ordered his servants to bear me into the grated room at the end of the eastern cloister. You cannot but remember the dismal place. Half sunk in ruin, overhung with ivy, and...
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Gothic: Eighteenth-century Gothic : Radcliffe, reader, writer, romancer

Fred Botting, Dale Townshend - 2004 - 400 pages
...Elizabeth and Burleigh. Ellinor is imprisoned — in St. Vincent's Abbey: [H]e ordered his servants to bear me into the grated room at the end of the eastern cloister. You cannot but remember the dismal place. Half sunk in ruin, and overhung with ivy,...
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