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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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Coventry Patmore·1823–1896
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29} In this year the middle and upper classes were disfranchised by Mr.Disraeli's Government, and the finaldestruction of the liberties of England by the Act of 1884 renderedinevitable. {35} The Alabama Treaty. {62} This Piece was written in the year 1874, soon after the publication ofan incendiary pamphlet by Mr. Gladstone against the English Catholics,occasioned by the Vatican Council.
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