... comes into this melancholy house a black hood is drawn; and in this dark shroud, an emblem of the curtain dropped between him and the living world, he is led to the cell from which he never again comes forth until his whole term of imprisonment has... Selections from the Calcutta Review - Pàgina 1801882Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pàgines
...comes forth, until his whole term of imprisonment has expired. He never hears of wife or children; home or friends; the life or death of any single creature. He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 334 pàgines
...forth, until] his whole term of imprisonment has expired. He never hears of wife or children ; home or friends ; the life or death of any single creature. He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human... | |
| Johann L. Tellkampf, Johann Ludwig Tellkampf - 1859 - 348 pàgines
...facts. Mr. Dickens calls the prison at Philadelphia a "solitary one," and says, "that the prisoner sees the prison officers, but, with that exception,...upon a human countenance or hears a human voice". This, however, is not the case. It is not a "solitary", but a separate system. Its design is to remove... | |
| William Parker Foulke - 1861 - 118 pàgines
...friends; the life or death of any single creature" — that, with the exception of the prison officers, "he never looks upon a human countenance or hears a human voice," &c. On the contrary, he is allowed, under proper restrictions, to correspond with, and even in some... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pàgines
...forth, until his whole term of imprisonment has expired. He never hears of wife or children ; home or friends ; the life or death of any single creature. He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception, he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 658 pàgines
...forth, until his whole term of imprisonment has expired. He never hears of wife and children ; home or friends ; the life or death of any single creature. He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 pàgines
...and children, home or friends, the life or death of any single creature. He sees the prisonofficers, but with that exception he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human voice. He THE EASTERN PENITENTIARY AND ITS PRISONERS. 325 is a man bnried alive; to be dug oat in the slow roil... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1877 - 502 pàgines
...forth, until his whole term of imprisonment has expired. He never hears of wife or children ; home or friends ; the life or death, of any single creature. He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception, he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 pàgines
...comes forth, until his whole term of imprisonment has expired. He never hears of wife or children, home ou like of my Either, alive,—to be dug out in the slow round of years ; and in the mean time, dead to everything but torturing... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1884 - 872 pàgines
...forth, until his whole term of imprisonment has expired. He never hears of wife and children ; home or friends ; the life or death of any single creature. He sees the prison-officers, but with that exception he never looks upon a human countenance, or hears a human... | |
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