The Pic-nic Papers, Volumen 1Charles Dickens Ward and Lock, 1841 - 472 páginas |
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... their object ; and they venture to hope that these volumes may be considered to have some claim on public sympathy and support . London , July , 1841 . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . The Lamplighter's Story The iv INTRODUCTION .
... their object ; and they venture to hope that these volumes may be considered to have some claim on public sympathy and support . London , July , 1841 . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME . The Lamplighter's Story The iv INTRODUCTION .
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... hope ? " asked the vice . " They had talent enough for it , Sir , " rejoined the chairman , " and would have been , but for the prejudices of society . Let women have their rights , Sir , and the females of Tom's family would have been ...
... hope ? " asked the vice . " They had talent enough for it , Sir , " rejoined the chairman , " and would have been , but for the prejudices of society . Let women have their rights , Sir , and the females of Tom's family would have been ...
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... hope they're all well , Sir , ' says Tom , -'every body . ' " Hush ! ' cries the old gentleman . ' I have consulted the book of Fate with rare and wonder- ful success . I am versed in the great sciences of as- trology and astronomy . In ...
... hope they're all well , Sir , ' says Tom , -'every body . ' " Hush ! ' cries the old gentleman . ' I have consulted the book of Fate with rare and wonder- ful success . I am versed in the great sciences of as- trology and astronomy . In ...
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... hope that Mr. Mooney might not be in the habit of pre- paring gentlemen that way without their own consent . A hundred times , at least , he looked into the pot where they were boiling the philoso- pher's stone down to the proper ...
... hope that Mr. Mooney might not be in the habit of pre- paring gentlemen that way without their own consent . A hundred times , at least , he looked into the pot where they were boiling the philoso- pher's stone down to the proper ...
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... hope that all who live by literature , are on this point grateful and unforgetful . With the trading poet , arose the trading pub- lisher ; and the Dryden had his Tonson . A respectable man , upon the whole , was Jacob Tonson . He was ...
... hope that all who live by literature , are on this point grateful and unforgetful . With the trading poet , arose the trading pub- lisher ; and the Dryden had his Tonson . A respectable man , upon the whole , was Jacob Tonson . He was ...
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Adèle Al Mansur amid appeared arms ash tree Aunt Honour banneret beauty Bosphorus bull caique Castlemain Circassian companion Congreve Constantinople Count d'Esparre cries daughter death Doctor Johnson door Dryden Emilia English knight exclaimed eyes face father fearful feelings Fidge fire flames Garscube gazed giaour Golden Horn gondolier Gourock Grey Grig hand head heard heart horse hour instant Jacob Jacob Tonson John Dryden Killmacreenan kind lamplighter leave Leonardo light live looked Major Ap Owen matter Mauberme maun mind Miquelet mistress Montague morning mother mountains Mustapha never night noble occasion old gentleman passed replied round says the old scarcely scene sea of Marmora seemed seraglio side sight Sir Miles Armourer soon sooner spirit spot stranger tell thing thou thought thousand tion Tom's Tonson took Turkish turned Venice voice whispered wife words young lady youth
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Página 217 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Página 60 - If they will consider me as a man who has done my best to improve the language, and especially the poetry, and will be content with my acquiescence under the present government, and forbearing satire on it, that I can promise, because I can perform it : but I can neither take the oaths, nor forsake my religion; because I know not what church to go to, if I...
Página 61 - God be pleased to open your eyes, as he has opened mine ! Truth is but one, and they who have once heard of it, can plead no excuse if they do not embrace it. But these are things too serious for a trifling letter...
Página 64 - Upon trial, I find all of your trade are sharpers, and you not more than others ; therefore, I have not wholly left you.
Página 72 - For what other reason have I spent my life in so unprofitable a study ? why am I grown old, in seeking so barren a reward as fame ? The same parts and application, which have made me a poet, might have raised me to any honours of the gown, which are often given to men of as little learning and less honesty than myself.
Página 71 - If love be folly, the severe divine Has felt that folly, though he censures mine ; Pollutes the pleasures of a chaste embrace, Acts what I write, and propagates in grace, With riotous excess, a priestly race. Suppose him free, and that I forge...
Página 69 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away : for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected, I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
Página 91 - ... her first: — That touch, at last, through every fibre slid ; And Paulo turned, scarce knowing what he did, Only he felt he could no more dissemble, And kissed her, mouth to mouth, all in a tremble. Sad were those hearts, and sweet was that long kiss : Sacred be love from sight, whate'er it is. The world was all forgot, the struggle o'er, Desperate the joy. — That day they read no more.
Página 71 - OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Página 64 - With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair, And frowzy pores, that taint the ambient air.