Category: Author Charles Dickens

period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body Charles Dickens A…

Y así la visión de obrar bien que con tanta frecuencia es el sangriento espejismo de mucha gente buena, se ofreció a él y hasta llegó a concebir la ilusión de poder ejercer alguna influencia en la dirección de aquella rabiosa Revolución que tan terribles derroteros seguía. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1…

The sun,–the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man–burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 88 I had considered how the…

of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 After a pause, one half of the children cried…

To return to poor Darnay, said Carton. Don’t tell Her of this interview, or this arrangement. It would not enable Her to go to see him. She might think it was contrived, in case of the worst, to convey to him the means of anticipating the sentence. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 0…

judges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place—then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day’s disfigurement— Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing,…

it was the best of times it was the worst of times Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 0 Տեսնելով, թէ ինչպէս է գորշ ամպը ծաւալւում ու ծածկում շուրջբոլորը, կարելի էր մտածել, թէ Բնութիւնն ինքն է մօտակայ մի վայրում հսկայական կաթսայով գարեջուր պատրաստում տօնակատարութեան համար։ Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 0 humane Charles Dickens A Tale…

He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 2 It will do her no good to keep herself concealed from me at this moment,” said Madame Defarge. “Good patriots will know what that means. Let me see…

Dickens writes that one of his characters, “listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 5 . Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes…

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 10 Nothingever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be…