The History of Pendennis, Band 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 Seiten |
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... called them " modest women . ' That virtue which , let us hope they possessed , had not hitherto compensated to Mr. Foker for the absence of more lively qualities which most of his own relatives did not enjoy , and which he found in ...
... called them " modest women . ' That virtue which , let us hope they possessed , had not hitherto compensated to Mr. Foker for the absence of more lively qualities which most of his own relatives did not enjoy , and which he found in ...
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... called the Back Kitchen , frequented by all the wits and authors , you know , whom one does not see in society , but whom it is a great privilege and pleasure for Harry to meet , and there he hears the ques- tions of the day discussed ...
... called the Back Kitchen , frequented by all the wits and authors , you know , whom one does not see in society , but whom it is a great privilege and pleasure for Harry to meet , and there he hears the ques- tions of the day discussed ...
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... called out to him to ask him to give another party soon . He sent the drag home under the guidance of one of the grooms , and went on foot himself ; his hands in his pockets , plunged in thought . The stars and moon shining tranquilly ...
... called out to him to ask him to give another party soon . He sent the drag home under the guidance of one of the grooms , and went on foot himself ; his hands in his pockets , plunged in thought . The stars and moon shining tranquilly ...
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... called " The Fashionable , " was in vogue among us ; and Warrington did not fail to point out , as before , how Pen was a man of the very first fashion himself , and received at the houses of some of the greatest personages in the land ...
... called " The Fashionable , " was in vogue among us ; and Warrington did not fail to point out , as before , how Pen was a man of the very first fashion himself , and received at the houses of some of the greatest personages in the land ...
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... called for him : the hospitable door was shut upon him . Often and sadly did he speak to his friends at the Kitchen of his resemblance to King Lear in the plee - of his having a thankless choild , bedad - of his being a pore worn - out ...
... called for him : the hospitable door was shut upon him . Often and sadly did he speak to his friends at the Kitchen of his resemblance to King Lear in the plee - of his having a thankless choild , bedad - of his being a pore worn - out ...
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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...