The Personal History of David Copperfield, 1. köideB. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 624 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afraid afterwards Agnes ain't arms asked aunt Barkis believe Betsey Trotwood breakfast called Chillip Consistory Creakle cried Crupp David Copperfield Davy dear dear Jane delightful Dick dinner Doctor Strong door Dora Em❜ly eyes face feel fellow felt fire gave gentleman glad going gone Gummidge hair hand happy head hear heard heart Heep hope knew lady laughing little Em'ly looked ma'am Master Copperfield Mell Micawber Micawber's mind Miss Betsey Miss Dartle Miss Larkins Miss Murdstone Miss Shepherd Miss Trotwood morning mother never night observed parlor Peggotty Peggotty's pretty Quinion recollect remember replied returned round Salem House seemed shaking sitting smile sort Spenlow Steerforth suppose sure talk tell thing thought told took Traddles turned umble Uriah Uriah Heep voice walked Waterbrook Wickfield window Windsor Terrace wonder Yarmouth young دو وو
Popular passages
Page 1 - WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Page 110 - I had of being utterly neglected and hopeless; of the shame I felt in my position; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that, day by day, what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy...
Page 124 - My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, " you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are for ever floored. As I am ! " To make his example the more impressive, Mr.
Page 41 - From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time...
Page 114 - That I suffered in secret, and that I suffered exquisitely, no one ever knew but I. How much I suffered, it is, as I have said already, utterly beyond my power to tell.
Page 110 - ... middle-aged person, in a brown surtout and black tights and shoes, with no more hair upon his head (which was a large one, and very shining) than there is upon an egg, and with a very extensive face, which he turned full upon me. His clothes were shabby, but he had an imposing shirt-collar on. He carried a jaunty sort of a stick, with a large pair of rusty tassels to it; and a quizzing-glass hung outside his coat, — for ornament, I afterwards found, as he very seldom looked through it, and...
Page 23 - Sarah Jane lugger, built at Sunderland, with a real little wooden stern stuck on to it; a work of art, combining composition with carpentry, which I considered to be one of the most enviable possessions that the world could afford. There were some hooks in the beams of the ceiling, the use of which I did not divine then; and some lockers and boxes and conveniences of that sort, which served for seats and eked out the chairs.
Page 216 - I can tell you best what he is, by telling you what Doctors' Commons is. It's a little out-of-the-way place, where they administer what is called ecclesiastical law, and play all kinds of tricks with obsolete old monsters of Acts of Parliament, which three-fourths of the world know nothing about, and the other fourth supposes to have been dug up, in a fossil state, in the days of the Edwards. It's a place that has an ancient monopoly in suits about people's wills and people's marriages, and disputes...
Page 62 - I heard that Mr. Sharp's wig didn't fit him ; and that he needn't be so " bounceable " — somebody else said "bumptious" — about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind. I heard that one boy, who was a coal-merchant's son, came as a set-off against the coal-bill, and was called, on that account, "Exchange or Barter" — a name selected from the arithmetico book as expressing this arrangement.
Page 113 - In the latter case, it was commonly a saveloy and a penny loaf; sometimes, a fourpenny plate of beef from a cook's shop; sometimes, a plate of bread and cheese, and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house over the way; the Swan, if I remember right, or the Swan and something else that I have forgotten.