The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Band 1M. Doolady, 1867 - 480 Seiten |
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... Perhaps the lovers of " excitement " may care to know , that this book began with a very precise plan , which was entirely put aside . Ladies and gentlemen , you were to have been treated , and the writer's and the publishers ' pocket ...
... Perhaps the lovers of " excitement " may care to know , that this book began with a very precise plan , which was entirely put aside . Ladies and gentlemen , you were to have been treated , and the writer's and the publishers ' pocket ...
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... Perhaps he had had a love affair in early life which he had to strangle -perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned , like so many blind kittens ; well , at three and forty he was a collected quiet little gentleman ...
... Perhaps he had had a love affair in early life which he had to strangle -perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned , like so many blind kittens ; well , at three and forty he was a collected quiet little gentleman ...
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... and his orders were obeyed like those of the Medes and Persians . His hat was as well brushed , perhaps , as that of any man in this empire . His meals were served at the same minute every day , and woe to those who came late PENDENNIS .
... and his orders were obeyed like those of the Medes and Persians . His hat was as well brushed , perhaps , as that of any man in this empire . His meals were served at the same minute every day , and woe to those who came late PENDENNIS .
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... perhaps he blushed to think that it was only last holidays he had in a manner robbed the great apple - tree , and been scolded by the dairy - maid for taking cream . " " They buried John Pendennis , Es- quire , formerly an eminent ...
... perhaps he blushed to think that it was only last holidays he had in a manner robbed the great apple - tree , and been scolded by the dairy - maid for taking cream . " " They buried John Pendennis , Es- quire , formerly an eminent ...
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... Perhaps it would have been much bet- ter for him had he taken the parson's advice and company home . But which of us knows his fate ? CHAPTER IV . MRS . HALLER . HAVING returned to the George , Mr. Foker and his guest sate down to a ...
... Perhaps it would have been much bet- ter for him had he taken the parson's advice and company home . But which of us knows his fate ? CHAPTER IV . MRS . HALLER . HAVING returned to the George , Mr. Foker and his guest sate down to a ...
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The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition) William Makepeace Thackeray Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1972 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet begad blushed Bolton Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain Costigan carriage chambers Chatteris Clavering family Clavering Park Clavering's Colonel cried daughter dear delighted dennis dine dinner Doctor door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny father fellow Foker girl give Glanders Grosvenor Place hand happy heard heart Helen honest honour Huxter kind knew Lady Clavering Lady Rockminster laugh Laura letter live London looked Lord Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry ment Miss Amory Miss Fotheringay Morgan morning mother nephew never night Oxbridge Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's Pendennis's play poor Portman pretty Pynsent round sate Shandon Sir Francis Clavering smile Smirke speak Strong talk tell thing thought tion told took uncle voice Wagg walked Warrington widow wife woman wonder word young lady
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 466 - I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.
Seite 388 - ... :—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 466 - 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 387 - ... and what a listless spectator yourself! You are sixand-twenty years old, and as blase as a rake of sixty. You neither hope much, nor care much, nor believe much. You doubt about other men as much as about yourself. Were it made of such pococuranti as you, the world would be intolerable ; and I had rather live in a wilderness of monkeys, and listen to their chatter, than in a company of men who denied everything." "Were the world composed of Saint Bernards or Saint Dominies, it would be equally...
Seite 194 - ALTHOUGH I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover ; And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her. The Minster bell tolls out Above the city's rout, And noise and humming : They've hush'd the Minster bell : The organ 'gins to swell : She's coming, she's coming...