Category: Author Charles Dickens

Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn’t, and high cockolorum, Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 1 He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and…

For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep…

sickness, ignorance, and want, were the lords in waiting on the saintly presence—nobles of great power all of them; but, most especially the last. Samples of a people that had undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill, and certainly not in the fabulous mill which ground old people young, shivered at every corner,…

that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts…

The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its pleasant streams, were cutting the bright morning air as if there were no such thing as change on earth. Yet the bells, when they sounded told me sorrowfully of change in…

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 0 Love was made on these occasions in the form of bracelets; Charles Dickens Hard Times 0 comparison Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 0 for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened…

reached Charles Dickens David Copperfield 0 CHAPTER XXXVIII CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 0 …recuerdo que me quede asomado a la ventana contemplando la luna sobre el agua como si fuera un libro mágico donde pudiera leer mi destino……

their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all comers and goers, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 eighteen years a secret and unaccused prisoner in the Bastille; Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…

Uriah gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 1 Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made…