The History of Pendennis, Band 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 Seiten |
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... mother's jointure , and two hundred a year during my life : " Harry , who knew that his sire , though a man of few words , was yet impli- citly to be trusted , acquiesced at once in the parental decree , and said , “ Well , sir , if ...
... mother's jointure , and two hundred a year during my life : " Harry , who knew that his sire , though a man of few words , was yet impli- citly to be trusted , acquiesced at once in the parental decree , and said , “ Well , sir , if ...
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... mother coming up . ' " " 66 " You are not a literary man , Foker , " Pen said , laughing , and hook- ing his arm into his friend's . You must know I have been writing a novel , and some of the papers have spoken very well of it . you ...
... mother coming up . ' " " 66 " You are not a literary man , Foker , " Pen said , laughing , and hook- ing his arm into his friend's . You must know I have been writing a novel , and some of the papers have spoken very well of it . you ...
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... mother is a sainted woman . And Mrs. Pendennis , ma'am , I shall order a copy of the book for myself , and another at the Book club . " We may be sure that the widow and Laura walked out to meet the mail which brought them their copy of ...
... mother is a sainted woman . And Mrs. Pendennis , ma'am , I shall order a copy of the book for myself , and another at the Book club . " We may be sure that the widow and Laura walked out to meet the mail which brought them their copy of ...
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... mother , were full of descriptions of the famous people and the entertainments , and magnificence of the great city . Every body was flattering him and spoiling him , she was sure . Was he not looking to some great marriage , with that ...
... mother , were full of descriptions of the famous people and the entertainments , and magnificence of the great city . Every body was flattering him and spoiling him , she was sure . Was he not looking to some great marriage , with that ...
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... mother's theatrical glories , which she longs to emulate . She has a good voice and a pretty face and figure for the stage ; and she prepares the rooms and makes the beds and breakfasts for Messrs . Costigan and Bows , in return for ...
... mother's theatrical glories , which she longs to emulate . She has a good voice and a pretty face and figure for the stage ; and she prepares the rooms and makes the beds and breakfasts for Messrs . Costigan and Bows , in return for ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
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...