The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Bände 1-2Macmillan and Company, 1901 - 850 Seiten |
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... letters were laid out there in expectation of his arrival , and many was the young fellow about town who looked with wonder at the number of those notes , and at the seals and franks which they bore . If there was any question about ...
... letters were laid out there in expectation of his arrival , and many was the young fellow about town who looked with wonder at the number of those notes , and at the seals and franks which they bore . If there was any question about ...
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... letter remained for a long time waiting for an audience in the ante - chamber under the slop - bason . At last it came to be this letter's turn , and the Major broke a seal with Fairoaks ' engraved upon it , and Clavering St. Mary's ...
... letter remained for a long time waiting for an audience in the ante - chamber under the slop - bason . At last it came to be this letter's turn , and the Major broke a seal with Fairoaks ' engraved upon it , and Clavering St. Mary's ...
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... letter - ' A dd pretty business at Fairoaks , Tuesday ; now let us see what the boy has to say ; ' and he took the other letter , which was written in a great floundering boy's hand , and sealed with the large signet of the Pendennises ...
... letter - ' A dd pretty business at Fairoaks , Tuesday ; now let us see what the boy has to say ; ' and he took the other letter , which was written in a great floundering boy's hand , and sealed with the large signet of the Pendennises ...
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... letter , his countenance assumed an expression of such rage and horror that Glowry , the surgeon - official , felt in his pocket for his lancet , which he always carried in his card - case , and thought his respected friend was going ...
... letter , his countenance assumed an expression of such rage and horror that Glowry , the surgeon - official , felt in his pocket for his lancet , which he always carried in his card - case , and thought his respected friend was going ...
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... letter - bag , with John Pendennis , Esquire , Fairoaks , engraved upon the brass plate , were there in waiting . The doctor and the lawyer from Clavering , who had seen the chaise pass through , came up in a gig half an hour after the ...
... letter - bag , with John Pendennis , Esquire , Fairoaks , engraved upon the brass plate , were there in waiting . The doctor and the lawyer from Clavering , who had seen the chaise pass through , came up in a gig half an hour after the ...
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acquaintance ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet Baymouth begad began blushed Bolton Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain Costigan carriage chambers Chatteris Chevalier Clavering family Clavering Park Colonel cried daughter dear delighted dine dinner door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny father fellow Foker girl give Glanders Grosvenor Place hand happy heard heart Helen honest honour Huxter kind knew Lady Clavering Lady Rockminster laugh Laura letter live London looked Lord Madame Fribsby Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Miss Amory Miss Fotheringay Morgan morning mother never night Oxbridge Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's Pendennis's perhaps play poor pretty Pynsent round Saint Boniface sate Shandon Sir Francis Clavering smile Smirke speak Strong talk tell thought told took uncle voice Wagg walked Warrington widow wife woman wonder word young gentleman young lady
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Seite 837 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.
Seite 358 - ALTHOUGH I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover ; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.
Seite 837 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; the reason why I cannot tell,
Seite 71 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Seite 701 - I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to Heaven, his revolt and recantation.
Seite xv - Many ladies have remonstrated and subscribers left me, because, in the course of the story, I described a young man resisting and affected by temptation. My object was to say, that he had the passions to feel, and the manliness and generosity to overcome them.
Seite 19 - A boy who construes 8 f and, instead of 8 « but, at sixteen years of age is guilty not merely of folly, and ignorance, and dulness inconceivable, but of crime, of deadly crime, of filial ingratitude, which I tremble to contemplate. A boy, sir, who does not learn his Greek play cheats the parent who spends money for his education. A boy who cheats his parent is not very far from robbing or forging upon his neighbour.
Seite 700 - ... than a laugh : if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass groaning by you unmoved : if the fight for the truth is taking place, and all men of...
Seite 346 - Healthy country tradesmen and farmers, in London for their business, came and recreated themselves with the jolly singing and suppers of the Back Kitchen; — squads of young apprentices and assistants, the shutters being closed over the scene of their labours, came hither, for fresh air doubtless; — rakish young medical students, gallant, dashing, what is called
Seite xiii - IF this kind of composition, of which the two years' product is now laid before the public, fail in art, as it constantly does and must, it at least has the advantage of a certain truth and honesty, which a work more elaborate might lose. In his constant communication with the reader, the writer is forced into frankness of expression, and to speak out his own mind and feelings as they urge him.