The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

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Macmillan, 1906 - 913 Seiten
 

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Seite 888 - I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.
Seite 745 - 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 474 - ... who could it be but he ? And as you suffer it, so will your brothers, in their way, — and after their kind. More selfish than you : more eager and headstrong than you : they will rush on their destiny when the doomed charmer makes her appearance. Or if they don't, and you don't, Heaven help you ! As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
Seite 386 - Kneel undisturb'd, fair saint, Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly. I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly. But suffer me to pace Round the forbidden place, Lingering a minute, Like outcast spirits, who wait And see through Heaven's gate Angels within it.
Seite 825 - And the seat in Parliament, Pen? Have you made it all right ? " asks Warrington. "All right, — as soon as Parliament meets and a new writ can be issued, Clavering retires, and I step into his shoes,
Seite 744 - ... audience, and turn to his roll of Plato, or his pleasant Greek song-book babbling of honey and Hybla, and nymphs and fountains and love. To what, we say, does this scepticism lead? It leads a man to a shameful loneliness and selfishness, so to speak — the more shameful, because it is so goodhumoured and conscienceless and serene. Conscience ! What is conscience? Why accept remorse ? What is public or private faith? Mythuses alike enveloped in enormous tradition.
Seite 421 - Beer Chronicle," growled Wagg, "and little Popjoy is to be engaged for the infantine department." "It is to be called the Pall Mall Gazette, sir, and we shall be very happy to have you with us," Shandon said. "Pall Mall Gazette — why Pall Mall Gazette?
Seite 20 - A boy who construes de and, instead of de but, at sixteen years of age is guilty not merely of folly and ignorance, and dullness inconceivable, but of crime, of deadly crime, of filial ingratitude, which I tremble to contemplate.
Seite 744 - I see it in this man who worships by Act of Parliament, and is rewarded with a silk apron and five thousand a year ; in that man, who, driven fatally by the remorseless logic of his creed, gives up everything, friends, fame, dearest ties, closest vanities, the respect of an army of churchmen, the recognized position of a leader, and passes over, truth-impelled, to the enemy, in whose ranks he is ready to serve henceforth as a nameless private soldier...

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