The history of PendennisEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... voice , his thin bearded face ) to press their hands and thank them affectionately ; and after this greeting , and after they had been turned out of the room by his affectionate nurse , he had sunk into a fine sleep which had lasted for ...
... voice , his thin bearded face ) to press their hands and thank them affectionately ; and after this greeting , and after they had been turned out of the room by his affectionate nurse , he had sunk into a fine sleep which had lasted for ...
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... voice . The lady stopped and started , and laid down her book , at the apparition of the tall traveller with the cigar and the carpet - bag . He blushed , he flung the cigar into the passage : he took off his hat , and dropped that too ...
... voice . The lady stopped and started , and laid down her book , at the apparition of the tall traveller with the cigar and the carpet - bag . He blushed , he flung the cigar into the passage : he took off his hat , and dropped that too ...
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... voice , " Come in , Stunner - come in Warring- ton . I knew it was you - by the - by the smoke , old boy , " he said , as holding his worn hand out , and with tears at once of weakness and pleasure in his eyes , he greeted his friend ...
... voice , " Come in , Stunner - come in Warring- ton . I knew it was you - by the - by the smoke , old boy , " he said , as holding his worn hand out , and with tears at once of weakness and pleasure in his eyes , he greeted his friend ...
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... voice from his arm- chair . Warrington taught Miss Laura to cry " Hear ! hear ! " and tapped the table with his knuckles . Pidgeon the attendant grinned , and honest Doctor Goodenough found the party so merrily engaged , when he came in ...
... voice from his arm- chair . Warrington taught Miss Laura to cry " Hear ! hear ! " and tapped the table with his knuckles . Pidgeon the attendant grinned , and honest Doctor Goodenough found the party so merrily engaged , when he came in ...
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William Makepeace Thackeray. and old songs of home . Her voice was a rich con- tralto , and Warrington , who scarcely knew one tune from another , and who had but one tune or bray in his repertoire , a most discordant imitation of God ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. and old songs of home . Her voice was a rich con- tralto , and Warrington , who scarcely knew one tune from another , and who had but one tune or bray in his repertoire , a most discordant imitation of God ...
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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...