The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The history of PendennisSmith Elder & Company, 1905 |
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... means , makes our all ? " Now the Captain's means were so small as to be , it may be said , quite invisible . But nobody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs , and in what marvellous places they find pasture . If Captain ...
... means , makes our all ? " Now the Captain's means were so small as to be , it may be said , quite invisible . But nobody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs , and in what marvellous places they find pasture . If Captain ...
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... means , and had hoped to see you , at least , try to restore the honours of our name . Your mother's softness stopped one prospect , or you might have been 4 a general like our gallant ancestor who fought at Ramillies 80 PENDENNIS.
... means , and had hoped to see you , at least , try to restore the honours of our name . Your mother's softness stopped one prospect , or you might have been 4 a general like our gallant ancestor who fought at Ramillies 80 PENDENNIS.
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... means pleasant to him , and the idea of that tipsy old father - in - law haunted him with terror . He couldn't bring that man , unshaven and reeking of punch , to associate with his mother . Even about Emily - he faltered when the ...
... means pleasant to him , and the idea of that tipsy old father - in - law haunted him with terror . He couldn't bring that man , unshaven and reeking of punch , to associate with his mother . Even about Emily - he faltered when the ...
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... means , I tell you , to make him marry to - morrow . We have got time from him , that is all , and we must do our best with that . " " I sav , Major , " said the Doctor , at the end of the conversation in which the above subject was ...
... means , I tell you , to make him marry to - morrow . We have got time from him , that is all , and we must do our best with that . " " I sav , Major , " said the Doctor , at the end of the conversation in which the above subject was ...
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... means delighted at this absurd intrigue in which Arthur is engaged . " " Connection not " I should rather think not , " said Mr. Foker . eligible . Too much beer drunk on the premises . No Irish need apply . That I take to be your ...
... means delighted at this absurd intrigue in which Arthur is engaged . " " Connection not " I should rather think not , " said Mr. Foker . eligible . Too much beer drunk on the premises . No Irish need apply . That I take to be your ...
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acquaintance admiration ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet Baymouth beautiful began Bingley Blanche blushed Bows Bungay called Captain Costigan carriage Chatteris Clavering's cried daughter dear delighted dine dinner Doctor Portman door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny father Foker girl give Glanders Grosvenor Place hand happy heard heart Helen honest honour Huxter kind knew Lady Clavering Larkbeare laughed letters live London looked Lord Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Miss Amory Miss Costigan Miss Fotheringay Morgan morning mother never night Oxbridge Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's Pendennis's perhaps play Pontypool poor pretty Pynsent remember round Saint Boniface sate seen Shandon Sir Francis Clavering smile Smirke sure talk tell thought told took uncle voice Wagg walked Warrington widow woman wonder word young fellow young gentleman young lady
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Seite 302 - 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 62 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Seite 615 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest...
Seite 399 - If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Seite 616 - ... 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 : — 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 endeavors 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 1 - 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 xvi - your idleness is incorrigible and your stupidity beyond example. You are a disgrace to your school, and to your family, and I have no doubt will prove so in after-life to your country. If that vice, sir, which is described to us as the root of all evil, be really what moralists have represented...
Seite xlvii - Ladies and gentlemen, you were to have been treated, and the writer's and the publishers' pocket benefited, by the recital of the most active horrors. What more exciting than a ruffian (with many admirable virtues) in St. Giles's visited constantly by a young lady from Belgravia ? What more stirring than the contrasts of society ? the mixture of slang and fashionable language...