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...were hardned, and Death was so always before their Eyes, that they did not so much concern themselves for the Loss of their Friends, expecting, that themselves...there; and as the thing was new to me, as well as to every Body else, it was a most surprising thing, to see those Streets, which were usually so thronged,...

...were hardened, and death was so always before their eyes, that they did not so much concern themselves for the loss of their friends, expecting that themselves should be summoned the next hour." London at this time had a population of nearly half a million. The deaths from the plague during 1665,...

...hardned, and Death was so always before their Eyes, that they did not so much concern themselves for Loss of their Friends, expecting, that themselves...there; and as the thing was new to me, as well as to every Body else, it was a most surprising thing, to see those Streets, which were usually so thronged,...

...right to the core of existence' SIMON ARMITAGE Edited with an introduction and notes by JOHN RICHETTI 'It was a most surprising thing, to see those Streets,...which were usually so thronged, now grown desolate' In 1665 the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 1 00,000 lives. In A Journal, written...

...Ackroyd. Edited with an introduction and notes by ROBERT MIGHALL DANIEL DEFOE A Journal of the Plague Year 'It was a most surprising thing, to see those Streets,...which were usually so thronged, now grown desolate' In 1665 the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal, written...

...were hardened, and death was so always before their eyes, that they did not so much concern themselves for the loss of their friends, expecting that themselves should be summoned the next hour."24 Defoe's narrative of the loss of human sympathy, exemplified by the tavern revelers who mock...

...hardened, and death so was so always before their eyes that they did not so much concern themselves for the loss of their friends, expecting that themselves should be summoned the next hour. DANIEL DEFOE, A Journal of tJu Plague Year PLACE: Athens. DATE: 430. STYLE: Thucydides. (See description...

...were hardened, and death was so always before their eyes, that they did not so much concern themselves for the loss of their friends, expecting that themselves should be summoned the next hour." Superstition, as it always does, ushered in misfortune, and furnished another melancholy feature in...