The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Band 2H. Milford, 1850 - 982 Seiten |
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Seite 501 - ... 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 572 - But the earth, where our feet are, is the work of the same Power as the immeasurable blue yonder, in which the future lies into which we would peer. Who ordered toil as the condition of life, ordered weariness, ordered sickness, ordered poverty, failure, success — to this man a foremost place, to the other a nameless struggle with the crowd — to that a shameful fall, or paralyzed limb, or sudden accident — to each some work upon the ground he stands on. until he is laid beneath it.
Seite 956 - 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 657 - It is not only for the sick man, it is for the sick man's friends that the doctor comes. His presence is often as VICE FANNY CASHIERED good for them as for the patient, and they long for him yet more eagerly. How we have all watched after him ! what an emotion the thrill of his carriage-wheels in the street, and at length at the door, has made us feel!