Category: Author Charles Dickens

You didn’t take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.  Charles Dickens Hard Times 0 circumstances, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 0 Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this…

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 12 Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed,” cried the phantom, “not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for…

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 0 THE TIME ARRIVES FOR NANCY TO REDEEM HER PLEDGE TO ROSE MAYLIE. SHE FAILS. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 0 The time arrives. ‘It is a waltz, I think,’ Miss Larkins doubtfully observes, when I present myself.…

large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 3 Pero todavía siento la debilidad de…

For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if…

His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of…

I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 9 his face, though lined, bore few traces of anxiety. But, perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in…

Gradualmente desertó el auditorio y parpadearon algunas luces en las casuchas, luces que, en vez de apagarse, no parecía sino que habían huido al cielo para convertirse en estrellas. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 There never was such a goose. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 1 Heaven, Charles Dickens A Tale of…

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar…

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves…