The history of PendennisEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... uncle ( who were both affected according to their different natures by his wan appearance , his lean shrunken hands , his hollow eyes and voice , his thin bearded face ) to press their hands and thank them affectionately ; and after ...
... uncle ( who were both affected according to their different natures by his wan appearance , his lean shrunken hands , his hollow eyes and voice , his thin bearded face ) to press their hands and thank them affectionately ; and after ...
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... uncle , and Laura , that there was no hand in all the band of penmen more grace- ful and light , more pleasant and more elegant , than Arthur's . " The people in this country , ma'am , don't understand what style is , or they would see ...
... uncle , and Laura , that there was no hand in all the band of penmen more grace- ful and light , more pleasant and more elegant , than Arthur's . " The people in this country , ma'am , don't understand what style is , or they would see ...
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... uncle ; and the end was that a gentleman from Burlington Arcade waited next day upon Mr. Pendennis , and had a private interview with him in his bedroom ; and a week afterwards the same individual appeared with a box under his arm , and ...
... uncle ; and the end was that a gentleman from Burlington Arcade waited next day upon Mr. Pendennis , and had a private interview with him in his bedroom ; and a week afterwards the same individual appeared with a box under his arm , and ...
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... uncle says : besides , Warrington , I want to get out of the country . Whilst you were away , confound it , I had a tempta- tion , from which I am very thankful to have escaped , and which I count that even my illness came very luckily ...
... uncle says : besides , Warrington , I want to get out of the country . Whilst you were away , confound it , I had a tempta- tion , from which I am very thankful to have escaped , and which I count that even my illness came very luckily ...
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... uncle . " I should be very glad , indeed , if Mr. Warrington would come , " remarked Laura to the tea - spoon . " Would you ? " said George . She looked up and said " Yes . " Their eyes met . " I will go anywhere you ask me , or do ...
... uncle . " I should be very glad , indeed , if Mr. Warrington would come , " remarked Laura to the tea - spoon . " Would you ? " said George . She looked up and said " Yes . " Their eyes met . " I will go anywhere you ask me , or do ...
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ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet begad Begum bless blush Bonner Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain carriage chambers Chatteris Chevalier Clavering Arms Clavering family Clavering's Colonel Costigan creature cried Curaçoa dammy dear dearest dev'lish dinner door eyes face Fairoaks fellow Foker fortune George girl give Grosvenor Place hand happy heard heart Helen honor Huxter kind kissed knew Lady Clavering Lady Rockminster ladyship laugh letter Lightfoot live looked Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Miss Amory Miss Bell Miss Blanche Morgan mother never night old gentleman old lady old Pendennis Parliament passed Pen's Pendennis's poor pray pretty Rosenbad secret Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering smile speak Strong talk tell there's thing thought told took Tunbridge uncle valet voice walked Warrington Wheel of Fortune widow wife wish woman word young lady
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Seite 369 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell : the reason why I cannot tell,
Seite 172 - 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 172 - ... and conscienceless and serene. Conscience! What is conscience? Why accept remorse? What is public or private faith? Mythuses alike enveloped in enormous tradition. 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 further 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...
Seite 171 - ... solutions to those come to by our friend. We are not pledging ourselves for the correctness of his opinions, which readers will please to consider are delivered dramatically, the writer being no more answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered by any other character of the story: our endeavor is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development of the mind of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truthavoiding man.
Seite 172 - Ministerial benches. I see it in this man who worships by Act of Parliament, and is rewarded with a silk apron and five thousand a year; in that man, who, driven fatally by the remorseless logic of his creed, gives up everything, friends...