Wit and wisdom from Dickens, selected by A.R. Fossard1912 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ain't angels arter awakened Barnaby Rudge beautiful believe better Bleak House bless breast breath bright cheerful child Christmas Carol Christmas Stories creature dark David Copperfield dear Dombey Dombey and Son earth Expectations eyes face father feel gentle gone grave hand happy hard head heart Heaven hope ladies leaves light Little Dorrit live look lviii Martin Chuzzlewit mind Murdstone Mutual Friend nature ness never Nicholas Nickleby night nothin Old Curiosity Old Curiosity Shop Oliver Twist pain Peggotty Pickwick Papers pleasant poor quiet recollect remember replied round Samivel Sammy seemed shed shine silent Sketches by Boz sleep smile sorrow spirit tell there's thing thought tion tranquil truth turned virtue vith Weller wery widders wind window wondered words xxxiii xxxiv young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 73 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who had lived and suffered death. Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter berries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to favor. " When I die, put near me something that has loved the light, and had the sky above it always.
Seite 121 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Seite 152 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Seite 201 - As we struggled on, nearer and nearer to the sea, from which this mighty wind was blowing dead on shore, its force became more and more terrific. Long before we saw the sea, its spray was on our lips, and showered salt rain upon us.
Seite 44 - Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!
Seite 68 - Oh ! it is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach ; but let no man reject it, for it is one that all must learn, and is a mighty, universal Truth. When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which...
Seite 44 - I time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Seite 202 - The excited voice went clamouring along the staircase ; and I wrapped myself in my clothes as quickly as I could, and ran into the street. Numbers of people were there before me, all running in one direction to the beach. I ran the same way, outstripping a good many, and soon came facing the wild sea.
Seite 47 - Yes, I have a pair of eyes,' replied Sam, 'and that's just it. If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight of stairs, and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited.
Seite 80 - The boy stirred, and smiled in his sleep, as though these marks of pity and compassion had awakened some pleasant dream of a love and affection he had never known.