The Life of Charles Dickens, 1. köideJ. B Lippincott & Company, 1872 |
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Page 216 - ... painted The ruddy tints of health On haggard face and form that drooped and fainted In the fierce race for wealth; Till one arose, and from his pack's scant treasure A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew. And then, while round them shadows gathered faster, And as the firelight fell. He read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of "Little Nell.
Page 28 - All my early readings and early imaginations dated from this place, and I took them away so full of innocent construction and guileless belief, and I brought them back so worn and torn, so much the wiser and so much the worse ! XIII.
Page 54 - I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house opposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion and something else that I have forgotten.
Page 29 - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my Own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
Page 53 - I think his little sister, did imps in the pantomimes. "No words can express the secret agony of my soul as I sank into this companionship ; compared these...
Page 110 - The idea propounded to me was, that the monthly something should be a vehicle for certain plates to be executed by Mr. Seymour ; and there was a notion, either on the part of that admirable humorous artist, or of my visitor (I forget which), that a
Page 208 - I went to bed last night utterly dispirited and done up. All night I have been pursued by the child; and this morning I am unrefreshed and miserable. I don't know what to do with myself.
Page 29 - My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphry Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.
Page 210 - Gentleman. I sha'n't recover it for a long time. .Nobody will miss her like I shall. It is such a very painful thing to me, that I really cannot express my sorrow.
Page 44 - I remember, to take warning by his fate ; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he would be miserable.