Barnaby Rudge (Q2362527)

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novel by Charles Dickens
  • Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
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Barnaby Rudge
novel by Charles Dickens
  • Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty

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Barnaby Rudge (English)
A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (English)
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In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London-- measuring from the Standard in Cornhill, or rather from the spot on or near to which the Standard used to be in days of yore-- a house of public entertainment called the Maypole; which fact was demonstrated to all such travellers as could neither read nor write (and at that time a vast number both of travellers and stay-at-homes were in this condition) by the emblem reared on the roadside over against the house, which, if not of those goodly proportions that Maypoles were wont to present in olden times, was a fair young ash, thirty feet in height, and straight as any arrow that ever English yeoman drew. (English)
From that period (although he was supposed to be much affected by the death of Mr Willet senior), he constantly practised and improved himself in the vulgar tongue; and, as he was a mere infant for a raven when Barnaby was grey, he has very probably gone on talking to the present time. (English)
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