The History of Pendennis, Band 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 Seiten |
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... Laura ! " And he wrote a letter to her , in which he told her his thanks and his regard ; and inclosed to her such an installment of his debt as nearly wiped it off . The widow and Laura herself might well be affected by the letter . It ...
... Laura ! " And he wrote a letter to her , in which he told her his thanks and his regard ; and inclosed to her such an installment of his debt as nearly wiped it off . The widow and Laura herself might well be affected by the letter . It ...
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... Laura not think about the book and the author , although she said so little ? At least she thought about Arthur Pendennis . Kind as his tone was , it vexed her . She did not like his eagerness to repay that money . She would rather that ...
... Laura not think about the book and the author , although she said so little ? At least she thought about Arthur Pendennis . Kind as his tone was , it vexed her . She did not like his eagerness to repay that money . She would rather that ...
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... Laura or to any person . When at length the famous novel appeared , it not only met with applause from more impartial critics than Mrs. Pendennis , but , luckily for Pen , it suited the taste of the public , and obtained a quick and con ...
... Laura or to any person . When at length the famous novel appeared , it not only met with applause from more impartial critics than Mrs. Pendennis , but , luckily for Pen , it suited the taste of the public , and obtained a quick and con ...
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... Laura Bell at Fairoaks . She's cost me many a tear though you don't see ' em ; and she sneers at her mother because I haven't had learning and that . How should I ? I was brought up among natives till I was twelve , and went back to ...
... Laura Bell at Fairoaks . She's cost me many a tear though you don't see ' em ; and she sneers at her mother because I haven't had learning and that . How should I ? I was brought up among natives till I was twelve , and went back to ...
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... Laura . Nor could the novels on the library table fix his attention , nor the grave and respectable Jawkins ( the only man in town ) , who wished to engage him in conversation ; nor any of the amusements which he tried , after flying ...
... Laura . Nor could the novels on the library table fix his attention , nor the grave and respectable Jawkins ( the only man in town ) , who wished to engage him in conversation ; nor any of the amusements which he tried , after flying ...
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ain't Altamont Ann Milton Arthur Pendennis asked baronet begad Begum blushed Bonner Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain carriage chambers Chatteris Clavering family colonel Costigan creature cried daughter dear delight dev'lish dinner door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny Bolton fellow fond fortune girl give Glanders hand happy Harry Foker heard heart Helen honor Huxter kind knew Lady Clavering Lady Clavering's Lady Rockminster laugh Laura letter Lightfoot little Fanny live lodge London looked Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Mirabel Miss Amory Miss Bell Miss Blanche Morgan morning mother Muslin never night old gentleman old Pendennis Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's Pendennis's perhaps pretty Rosenbad Shandon Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering speak story Strong talk tell thing thought told took Tunbridge uncle voice walked Warrington widow wife wish woman word young lady
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Seite 237 - ... :—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 363 - 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 9 - ... 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 237 - ... 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 honour are on the ground armed on the one side or the other, and you alone are to lie on your balcony and smoke your pipe out of the noise and the danger, you had better have died, or never have been at all, than such a sensual coward.
Seite 236 - ... is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development of the mind of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truth-avoiding man. And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him...