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Identifier: rochestercharles00langrich (find matches)
Title: Charles Dickens and Rochester
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Langton, Robert, 1825-1900
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Rochester (Kent, England)
Publisher: London : Chapman & Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE VINES, ROCHESTER; WITH RESTORATION HOUSE.The Satis House of Great Expcciuiions.
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ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL (WEST DOOR).Norman work, circa 1130. ■KaiiiaEK^K^i(^KC»«m^g«giwEK-ei-^g*^*»«:»ti3?<*^g^4iJ(gi Charl.es Dickens ^ Born at Portsmouth seventh of February 1812 died at Gadshill placeJY Rochester ninth ofJune 1570 Buried in Westminster Abbeyg^-so lis LATESTlAiMF^DRALAND wm BRASS IN WALL OF SOUTH TRANSEPT, ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL. CHARLES DICKKNS AND ROCHESTER. 21 of the cathedral bell, or the roll of the cathedral organ, seemed to render morequiet than absolute silence. Swaggering fighting men had had their centuriesof ramping and raving about Minor Canon Comer, and beaten serfs had hadtheir centuries of drudging and dying there, and powerful monks had hadtheir centuries of being sometimes useful and sometimes harmful there ; andbehold, they were all gone out of Minor Canon Corner, and so much the better.Perhaps one of the highest uses of their ever having been there was that theremight be left behind that blessed air of tranquillity which pervaded Minor CanonCo

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