The Great English Novelists, Volum 2William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Harper & brothers, 1911 |
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Pàgina 34
... OF JESUS COLLEGE , OXON LONDON , June 10 . DEAR PHILLIPS : In my last I mentioned my having spent an evening with a society of authors , who seemed to 1 From Humphry Clinker . be jealous and afraid of one another . My uncle 34 HUMOUR.
... OF JESUS COLLEGE , OXON LONDON , June 10 . DEAR PHILLIPS : In my last I mentioned my having spent an evening with a society of authors , who seemed to 1 From Humphry Clinker . be jealous and afraid of one another . My uncle 34 HUMOUR.
Pàgina 42
... seemed in a great measure to cool the rage of his indignation . " After all , " said our landlord , " this is no more than a humbug in the way of wit , though it deserves a more respectable epithet , when considered as an effort of ...
... seemed in a great measure to cool the rage of his indignation . " After all , " said our landlord , " this is no more than a humbug in the way of wit , though it deserves a more respectable epithet , when considered as an effort of ...
Pàgina 50
... seemed resolved not to come alone . An- other footman from the same family followed , with a card for my daughters , importing that the two ladies had re- ceived such pleasing accounts from Mr. Thornhill of us all that after a few ...
... seemed resolved not to come alone . An- other footman from the same family followed , with a card for my daughters , importing that the two ladies had re- ceived such pleasing accounts from Mr. Thornhill of us all that after a few ...
Pàgina 84
... seemed to have risen from the people late in life , and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs , and presenting on the whole a feminine appearance . My gifted townsman stood gloomily apart , with ...
... seemed to have risen from the people late in life , and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs , and presenting on the whole a feminine appearance . My gifted townsman stood gloomily apart , with ...
Pàgina 92
... seemed to think must raise him in the estimation of Miss Helstone , or of any other lady who heard him ; whereas with her , at least , they brought him to a level below contempt ; though sometimes , indeed , they incensed her ; for a ...
... seemed to think must raise him in the estimation of Miss Helstone , or of any other lady who heard him ; whereas with her , at least , they brought him to a level below contempt ; though sometimes , indeed , they incensed her ; for a ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
Adams ain't answered asked Becky began Berry Brick Lane Brocklehurst brother brought Charles Dickens Charlotte Brontë child Clare Colonel cried dead dear death Dendermond Denner Dickens Doctor door Effie Elfride eyes face father gentleman George Eliot George Meredith girl Haley hand head hear heard heart Helstone honour Humm Jane Eyre Jeanie knew lady laughed Leeby legs Little Billee look Lord Lord Steyne Maggie Mas'r master mind Miss Ophelia Miss Temple Monsieur mother never Newcome night novel poor Poyser Rawdon replied Richard round seemed Slogger Smike speak Squeers Stiggins stood stopped Svengali Taffy talk tell Thackeray there's thing Thomas Hardy thou thought tion Tobias Smollett took Topsy Trim Trulliber turned uncle Toby voice walked whispered wife William Makepeace Thackeray woman wonder words young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 151 - Tis finished already, said the Corporal, — for I could stay no longer; — so wished his Honour a good night. Young Le Fevre rose from off the bed, and saw me to the bottom of the stairs; and as we went down together, told me they had come from Ireland, and were on their route to join the regiment in Flanders. — But, alas ! said the Corporal, — the Lieutenant's last day's march is over ! Then what is to become of his poor boy ? cried my uncle Toby.
Pàgina 151 - said he, a second time, musing. ' Possibly he may my story,' added he. ' Pray, tell the captain, I was the ensign at Breda whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musket-shot as she lay in my arms in my tent.
Pàgina 158 - He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Pàgina 193 - ... deadly. At length he neared the wreck. He was so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it, when a high, green, vast hillside of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone...
Pàgina 137 - Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify Me.
Pàgina 154 - Fever, said my uncle Toby, to my house, — and we'll send for a doctor to see what's the matter, — and we'll have an apothecary, — and the corporal shall be your nurse ; and I'll be your servant, Le Fever.
Pàgina 278 - My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon toward evening. At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish and also Georgiana wife of the above...
Pàgina 134 - I went on, but terrified to the last degree : looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man. Nor is it possible to describe how many various shapes...
Pàgina 145 - Tis for a poor gentleman, I think, of the army, said the landlord, who has been taken ill at my house four days ago, and has never held up his head since, or had a desire to taste any thing, till just now, that he has a fancy for a glass of sack and a thin toast.
Pàgina 52 - You need be under no uneasiness," cried I, "about selling the rims, for they are not worth sixpence; for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.