The history of PendennisEstes & Lauriat, 1896 |
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... 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 publisher's pocket benefited , by the recital of the most active horrors . What more ...
... 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 publisher's pocket benefited , by the recital of the most active horrors . What more ...
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... began to prosper . The good company of Bath patronized him , and amongst the ladies especially he was beloved and admired . First his humble little shop became a smart one : then he discarded the selling of tooth - brushes and PENDENNIS .
... began to prosper . The good company of Bath patronized him , and amongst the ladies especially he was beloved and admired . First his humble little shop became a smart one : then he discarded the selling of tooth - brushes and PENDENNIS .
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... began with our race and sanctifies the history of mankind . As for Arthur Pendennis , after that awful shock which the sight of his dead father must have pro- duced on him , and the pity and feeling which such an event no doubt ...
... began with our race and sanctifies the history of mankind . As for Arthur Pendennis , after that awful shock which the sight of his dead father must have pro- duced on him , and the pity and feeling which such an event no doubt ...
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... began to reign ; in person , he had what his friends would call a dumpy , but his mamma styled a neat little figure . His hair was of a healthy brown color , which looks like gold in the sunshine , his face was round , rosy , freckled ...
... began to reign ; in person , he had what his friends would call a dumpy , but his mamma styled a neat little figure . His hair was of a healthy brown color , which looks like gold in the sunshine , his face was round , rosy , freckled ...
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... began to think seriously of a scarlet coat : and his mother must own that she thought it would become him remarkably well ; though , of course , she passed hours of anguish during his absence , and daily ex- pected to see him brought ...
... began to think seriously of a scarlet coat : and his mother must own that she thought it would become him remarkably well ; though , of course , she passed hours of anguish during his absence , and daily ex- pected to see him brought ...
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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...