The history of PendennisEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... and while the waiters went to bring him his toast and his hot newspaper , he surveyed his letters through his gold double eye - glass , and examined one pretty note after another , and laid them by in order 2 PENDENNIS .
... and while the waiters went to bring him his toast and his hot newspaper , he surveyed his letters through his gold double eye - glass , and examined one pretty note after another , and laid them by in order 2 PENDENNIS .
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... budget for that morning there was only one unread , and which lay solitary and apart from all the fashion- able London letters , with a country postmark and a homely seal . The superscription was in a pretty deli- PENDENNIS . 3.
... budget for that morning there was only one unread , and which lay solitary and apart from all the fashion- able London letters , with a country postmark and a homely seal . The superscription was in a pretty deli- PENDENNIS . 3.
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William Makepeace Thackeray. homely seal . The superscription was in a pretty deli- cate female hand , marked " immediate " by the fair writer ; yet the Major had , for reasons of his own , neglected up to the present moment his humble ...
William Makepeace Thackeray. homely seal . The superscription was in a pretty deli- cate female hand , marked " immediate " by the fair writer ; yet the Major had , for reasons of his own , neglected up to the present moment his humble ...
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... pretty business at Fairoaks , Tuesday ; now let us see what the boy has to say ; " and he took the other letter , which was written in a great floundering boy's hand . and sealed with the large signet of the Pendennises , even larger ...
... pretty business at Fairoaks , Tuesday ; now let us see what the boy has to say ; " and he took the other letter , which was written in a great floundering boy's hand . and sealed with the large signet of the Pendennises , even larger ...
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... , from the lawn of Fairoaks , there was a pretty sight : it and the opposite park of Clavering were in the habit of putting on a rich golden tinge , which became them both wonderfully . The upper windows of the great 16 PENDENNIS .
... , from the lawn of Fairoaks , there was a pretty sight : it and the opposite park of Clavering were in the habit of putting on a rich golden tinge , which became them both wonderfully . The upper windows of the great 16 PENDENNIS .
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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
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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...