Category: Author Charles Dickens

In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 2 IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country Charles Dickens A Tale of…

Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First—Recalled Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being…

…think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you! Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 Crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest amd fairest are too often its chosen victims. Charles Dickens Oliver…

There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,’ returned the nephew. ‘Christmas among the rest. 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…

Keep where you are, Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 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 period, as at this. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1…

V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 CHAPTER XV* SHEWING HOW VERY FOND OF OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY OLD JEW AND MISS NANCY WERE Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 1 Her first proceeding there was to unlock a tall press, bring…

There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable Charles Dickens David Copperfield 3 My Uriah,’ said Mrs. Heep, ‘has looked forward to this, sir, a long…

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 304 Before I go,” he said, and paused — “I may kiss her?”It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with…

What the two drank together, between Hilary Term and Michaelmas, might have floated a king’s ship. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 2 Then the strong-rooms underground, at Tellson’s, with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger (and it was not a little that he knew about them),…

Weel, ma´am’ said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; ‘when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying. Charles Dickens Hard Times 6 Oh! if, when we oppress and…