The History of Pendennis, Band 1Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 Seiten |
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... for a servant , and who came with even more eagerness ; who got up stories , as he sent in draughts , for his patient's amusement and his own profit : perhaps she would have B chosen a different man - but she knew , on. PENDENNIS . 17.
... for a servant , and who came with even more eagerness ; who got up stories , as he sent in draughts , for his patient's amusement and his own profit : perhaps she would have B chosen a different man - but she knew , on. PENDENNIS . 17.
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William Makepeace Thackeray. chosen a different man - but she knew , on the other hand , how worthy Pendennis was , how prudent , how honorable ; how good he had been to his mother , and constant in his care of her ; and the upshot of ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. chosen a different man - but she knew , on the other hand , how worthy Pendennis was , how prudent , how honorable ; how good he had been to his mother , and constant in his care of her ; and the upshot of ...
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... knew you as you are , neighbor , she would not grieve much about being your widow , and would let your grave - lamp go out very soon , or perhaps not even take the trouble to light it . Whereas Helen Pendennis put up the handsomest of ...
... knew you as you are , neighbor , she would not grieve much about being your widow , and would let your grave - lamp go out very soon , or perhaps not even take the trouble to light it . Whereas Helen Pendennis put up the handsomest of ...
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... knew by their Christian names , and showed a great interest in their families ; and as the London coaches drove up , which in those early days used to set off from the George , Mr. Foker flung the coffee - room window open , and called ...
... knew by their Christian names , and showed a great interest in their families ; and as the London coaches drove up , which in those early days used to set off from the George , Mr. Foker flung the coffee - room window open , and called ...
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... knew her , too . They had almost their choice of places in the boxes of the theater , which was no better filled than country theaters usually are , in spite of the " universal burst of attraction and galvanic thrills of delight " adver ...
... knew her , too . They had almost their choice of places in the boxes of the theater , which was no better filled than country theaters usually are , in spite of the " universal burst of attraction and galvanic thrills of delight " adver ...
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acquaintance admiration Arthur Pendennis asked Baymouth beautiful began Bingley Blanche blushed Bows Bungay called Captain Costigan carriage Chatteries Clavering family Clavering Park Clavering's cried daughter dear delighted dine dinner Doctor Portman door drawing-room eyes face Fairoaks father Foker girl give Glanders glass hand heard heart Helen honest honor knew Lady Clavering laughing Laura letters London looked Lord Lowton Madame Fribsby Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Mirobolant Miss Amory Miss Costigan Miss Fotheringay mother nephew never night Oxbridge Pen's Pendennis's play pleasure poor port wine pretty Pynsent round Saint Boniface sate Shandon Sir Derby Sir Francis Clavering smile Smirke Strong talk tell thing thought told took uncle verses voice Wagg walked Warrington Wenham widow wine woman wonder young fellow young gentleman young lady young rascal
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Seite 323 - Kneel, undisturbed, 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...
Seite 316 - There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world, her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous. Yonder journal has an agent at this minute giving bribes at Madrid, and another inspecting the price of potatoes in Covent Garden.
Seite 70 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Seite 300 - The one could have sympathies and do kindnesses ; and the other must needs be always selfish. He could not cultivate a friendship or do a charity, or admire a work of genius, or kindle at the sight of beauty or the sound of a sweet song — he had no time, and no eyes for anything but his law-books. All was dark outside his reading-lamp. Love, and Nature, and Art, (which is the expression of our praise and sense of the beautiful world of God), were shut out from him. And as he turned off his lonely...
Seite 312 - ... were here smoking and drinking, and vociferously applauding the songs; young university bucks were to be found here, too, with that indescribable genteel simper which is only learned at the knees of Alma Mater; — and handsome young guardsmen, and florid bucks from the St. James's Street Clubs — nay, senators English and Irish; and even members of the House of Peers.
Seite 140 - ... empty, except on Thursdays, when the farmers put up there, and their tilted carts and gigs make a feeble show of liveliness in the place, or on Petty Sessions, when the magistrates attend in what used to be the old cardroom. On the south side of the market rises up the church with its great gray towers, of which the sun illuminates the delicate carving ; deepening the shadows of the huge buttresses, and gilding the glittering windows and flaming vanes.
Seite 9 - At a quarter past ten the Major invariably made his appearance in the best blacked boots in all London, with a checked morning cravat that never was rumpled until dinner time, a buff waistcoat which bore the crown of his sovereign on the buttons, and linen so spotless that Mr.
Seite 151 - Ah, sir - a distinct universe walks about under your hat and under mine — all things in nature are different to each - the woman we look at has not the same features, the dish we eat from has not the same taste to the one and the other - you and I are but a pair of infinite isolations, with some fellow-islands a little more or less near to us.