A great sensation, Volum 2Hurst&Blackett, 1862 |
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Pàgina 15
... at the thought of thus anticipating " the other shop ; " but when she began to look at the details of the picture , she found herself labouring with more anxiety than confidence to make the best of it A GREAT SENSATION . 15.
... at the thought of thus anticipating " the other shop ; " but when she began to look at the details of the picture , she found herself labouring with more anxiety than confidence to make the best of it A GREAT SENSATION . 15.
Pàgina 19
... began to render Caterina's life a burden to her . Her mental struggles and sufferings at this time are difficult to imagine , and cer- tainly impossible to describe . A deep sense of self - humiliation inclined her to mistrust herself ...
... began to render Caterina's life a burden to her . Her mental struggles and sufferings at this time are difficult to imagine , and cer- tainly impossible to describe . A deep sense of self - humiliation inclined her to mistrust herself ...
Pàgina 20
... began striving to make herself look ugly ; taking for her models certain Miss Twinbriggles , hard- featured and ungraceful spinsters , who lived at Hammersmith and came to tea . But inasmuch as the pursuance of this purpose caused her ...
... began striving to make herself look ugly ; taking for her models certain Miss Twinbriggles , hard- featured and ungraceful spinsters , who lived at Hammersmith and came to tea . But inasmuch as the pursuance of this purpose caused her ...
Pàgina 64
... differently ; Edgar felt sorry for not having tried harder to put his host at his ease ; and Rupert began to doubt whether his own efforts to produce the opposite effect were strictly in accord- ance with the 64 A GREAT SENSATION .
... differently ; Edgar felt sorry for not having tried harder to put his host at his ease ; and Rupert began to doubt whether his own efforts to produce the opposite effect were strictly in accord- ance with the 64 A GREAT SENSATION .
Pàgina 73
... began to expand , and the in- durated excrescences of his idiosyncrasy to soften the uncertain angularities of a strong nature untrained , unsatisfied , began to disappear , and his real nature to disclose itself , manifesting , among ...
... began to expand , and the in- durated excrescences of his idiosyncrasy to soften the uncertain angularities of a strong nature untrained , unsatisfied , began to disappear , and his real nature to disclose itself , manifesting , among ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
acute Dowager answered Rupert beauty beg your pardon better brother Cadogan Place Carlsbad carriage cat's-paw Caterina CHAPTER cheek Constance countenance course daresay daugh door drawing-room Edgar Edith Ernsford Court eyes fact feel Francesca da Rimini gallery gone Grahame Grahame's Grosvenor Square half hand hear heard heart hobbledehoy hope horse hour idle pairs instant Jemima Kensington Gardens Lady Goodwin Lady Ravensdale less London look Lord Elfin Lord Elfintower Lord Elfintower's Lord Ravensdale Lord Sevenoaks mean mind minutes Molini Moorfield morning mysterious lady never o'clock passed pause Perringston position Pre-Raphaelite Ravensdale's recognised replied rose round Schönbeck seen Sir John Campion slapping fine woman slowly soon sorrow sort South Eastern Railway Spuckers stance stood suppose sure talk tell there's thing thought tion told tone turned Twinbriggles voice walked watching week whilst wish words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 51 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Pàgina 6 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 5 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all...
Pàgina 209 - Amor, ma tu allor più m'informe A seguir d'una fera che mi strugge La voce ei passi e l'orme, E lei non stringi, che s'appiatta e fugge.
Pàgina 41 - Sunt quibus in satira videar nimis acer et ultra legem tendere opus; sine nervis altera quidquid composui pars esse putat, similisque meorum mille die versus deduci posse. Trebati, quid faciam praescribe. 'quiescas.
Pàgina 193 - I can't think who can have put such an idea into your head.
Pàgina 261 - You are like a young bear : you have all your troubles before you.
Pàgina 14 - I have no more to do with her than the man in the moon; but I know all about her, and I wish to be of use to her if I can.