Category: Author Charles Dickens

as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 A most malicious cough Charles Dickens…

found Mr. Waterbrook to be a middle-aged gentleman, with a short throat, and a good deal of shirt-collar, who only wanted a black nose to be the portrait of a pug-dog. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 0 CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER; CONNECTED WITH WHOM, VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED,…

I wish with all my soul I had been better guided! I wish with all my soul I could guide myself better! […]I have been a nightmare to myself, just now – must have had one, I think. At odd dull times, nursery tales come up into the memory, unrecognized for what they are. I…

Afraid, in her extreme perturbation, of the loneliness of the deserted rooms, and of half-imagined faces peeping from behind every open door in them, Miss Pross got a basin of cold water and began laving her eyes, which were swollen and red. Haunted by her feverish apprehensions, she could not bear to have her sight…

When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as…

Dacă mă pot exprima astfel, eram impregnat de Dora. Nu numai că eram îndrăgostit de ea până peste urechi, dar eram plin ochi de acest sentiment. Aș putea spune, folosind o metaforă, că s-ar fi putut stoarce din mine atâta dragoste încât s-ar fi putut îneca un om în ea; și încă mi-ar mai fi…

scarcely Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 0 And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush Charles Dickens A Tale…

Ay! Louder, Vengeance, much louder, and still she will scarcely hear thee. Louder yet, Vengeance, with a little oath or so added, and yet it will hardly bring her. Send other women up and down to seek her, lingering somewhere; and yet, although the messengers have done dread deeds, it is questionable whether of their…

She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those supernatural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled to see; and never came back any more. No. I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and…

It is indeed a much greater thing that I do now than I have ever done. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 4 Good day, citizeness. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 4 To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight,…