Old Curiosity Shop, Master Humphrey's Clock and MiscellaniesG.W. Carleton, 1879 - 800 Seiten |
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Old Curiosity Shop; Master Humphrey's Clock; And Miscellanies Charles Dickens Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Abel appeared asked Barbara Bevis Marks Charley Walters cheerful child Chuckster Cobbs Codlin Daniel Quilp dark dear Dick door dwarf eyes face feel fire Garland gone grandfather hand happy head hear heard heart honour hope hour Jarley Julius Cæsar kind Kit's mother legs light little Jacob little Nell live looked ma'am Marchioness master Master Humphrey MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK Meltham mind Miss Brass Miss Sally morning never night Old Curiosity Shop old gentleman once passed Pickwick pony poor pretty Quilp rejoined replied returned Richard Swiveller round Samivel Sampson schoolmaster seemed short silence single gentleman sleep small servant smile stood stopped street sure tell There's thing thought tion told Tom Scott took turned Vestry voice walk Walmers Weller whispered window woman word young
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Seite 504 - ... the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and - bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
Seite 504 - 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.
Seite 502 - ... the deaf, the blind, the lame, the palsied, the living dead in many shapes and forms, to see the closing of that early grave. What was the death it would shut in, to that which still could crawl and creep above it...
Seite 398 - Marchioness," said Mr. Swiveller gravely, "I shall ask your ladyship's permission to put the board in my pocket, and to retire from the presence when I have finished this tankard; merely observing, Marchioness, that since life like a river is flowing, I care not how fast it rolls on, ma'am, on, while such purl on the bank still is growing, and such eyes light the waves as they run. Marchioness, your health! You will excuse my wearing my hat, but the palace is damp, and the marble floor is, if I may...
Seite 184 - He raised his head, and glanced from the fluttering signal to his idle bat, that lay with slate, and book, and other boyish property, upon a table in the room. And then he laid him softly down once more, and asked if the little girl were there, for he could not see her.
Seite 455 - Since laws were made for every degree, To curb vice in others as well as in me, I wonder we ha'n't better company Upon Tyburn Tree!
Seite 385 - Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
Seite 790 - ... goose, whose feet were so small, and whose balance was so indifferent, that he usually tumbled forward, and knocked down all the animal creation. Consider Noah and his family, like idiotic tobacco-stoppers; and how the leopard stuck to warm little fingers; and how the tails of the larger animals used gradually to resolve themselves into frayed bits of string ! Hush! Again a forest, and somebody up in a tree - not Robin Hood, not Valentine...
Seite 502 - Old men were there, whose eyes were dim and senses failing — grandmothers, who might have died ten years ago, and still been old — the deaf, the blind, the lame, the palsied, the living dead in many shapes and forms, to see the closing of that early grave.
Seite 500 - God bless you !' with great fervour. Waking, she never wandered in her mind but once, and that was at beautiful music which she said was in the air. God knows. It may have been. Opening her eyes at last, from a very quiet sleep, she begged that they would kiss her once again. That done, she turned to the old man with a lovely...