The history of PendennisEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... course of his volubility , the perpetual speaker must of necessity lay bare his own weaknesses , vanities , peculiarities . And as we judge of a man's character , after long frequenting his society , not by one speech , or by one mood ...
... course of his volubility , the perpetual speaker must of necessity lay bare his own weaknesses , vanities , peculiarities . And as we judge of a man's character , after long frequenting his society , not by one speech , or by one mood ...
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... course of the story , I described a young man resisting and affected by temp- tation . My object was to say , that he had the pas- sions to feel , and the manliness and generosity to overcome them . You will not hear - it is best to ...
... course of the story , I described a young man resisting and affected by temp- tation . My object was to say , that he had the pas- sions to feel , and the manliness and generosity to overcome them . You will not hear - it is best to ...
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... courses and heavy conversation ; there were neat lit- tle confidential notes , conveying female entreaties ; there was a note on thick official paper from the Mar- quis of Steyne , telling him to come to Richmond to a little party at ...
... courses and heavy conversation ; there were neat lit- tle confidential notes , conveying female entreaties ; there was a note on thick official paper from the Mar- quis of Steyne , telling him to come to Richmond to a little party at ...
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... for that evening , of course charging the sum which he disbursed for the seats to the account of the widow and the young scapegrace of whom he was guardian . CHAPTER II . A PEDIGREE AND OTHER FAMILY MATTERS . PENDENNIS . 7.
... for that evening , of course charging the sum which he disbursed for the seats to the account of the widow and the young scapegrace of whom he was guardian . CHAPTER II . A PEDIGREE AND OTHER FAMILY MATTERS . PENDENNIS . 7.
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... course take entire superintend- ence of everything upon this most impressive and melancholy occasion . Aware of this authority , old John the footman , when he brought Major Pendennis - the candle to go to bed , followed afterwards with ...
... course take entire superintend- ence of everything upon this most impressive and melancholy occasion . Aware of this authority , old John the footman , when he brought Major Pendennis - the candle to go to bed , followed afterwards with ...
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acquaintance admiration Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet Baymouth beautiful began Bell Bingley Blanche blushed Boniface Bows called Captain Costigan carriage Chatteris Clavering Park cried Curate daugh daughter dear delighted dinner Doctor Portman Douglas Ives Duke of Kent Emily eyes face Fairoaks father Foker girl Glanders hand happy heart Helen honest honor knew laughing letter little Laura London looked Lord Lord Steyne Madame Fribsby Major Pendennis marriage marry Milly Miss Amory Miss Costigan Miss Fotheringay mother nephew never night Oxbridge passion Pen's Pendennis's play Pontypool poor Pen pretty Pynsent round Saint Boniface Sir Derby Sir Francis Sir Francis Clavering smile Smirke sure talk Tatham tender theatre thought took tutor uncle verses Wagg walked widow wine woman women wonder young fellow young gentleman young lady young rascal
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 96 - It is best to love wisely, no doubt : but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Seite xi - ONE fine morning in the full London season, Major Arthur Pendennis came over from his lodgings, according to his custom, to breakfast at a certain Club in Pall Mall, of which he was a chief ornament.
Seite 202 - Clavering westwards towards the sea — the place appears to be so cheery and comfortable that many a traveller's heart must have yearned towards it from the coach-top, and he must have thought that it was in such a calm friendly nook he would like to shelter at the end of life's struggle.
Seite 78 - In love with such a little ojus wretch as that stunted manager of a Bingley?" She bristled with indignation at the thought. Pen explained it was not of her he spoke, but of Ophelia of the play. " Oh, indeed ; if no offence was meant, none was taken : but as for Bingley, indeed, she did not value him — not that glass of punch." Pen next tried her on Kotzebue. " Kotzebue ? who was he 1 " — " The author of the play in which she had been performing so admirably.
Seite 222 - Ah, sir — a distinct universe walks about under your hat and under mine — all things in nature are different to each — the woman we look at has not the same features, the dish we eat from has not the same taste to the one and the other — you and I are but a pair of infinite isolations, with some 161 fellow-islands a little more or less near to us.
Seite v - Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict, to his utmost power, a MAN. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art.
Seite 34 - Pen never liked to halt, but made his tutor construe when he was at fault, and thus galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragic play-writers, and the charming wicked Aristophanes (whom he vowed to be the greatest poet of all). But he went so fast that, though he certainly galloped through a considerable extent of the ancient country, he clean forgot it in after-life, and had only...