The Adventures of Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They are, Volume 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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The Adventures of Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They are, Volume 2 William Godwin Volledige weergave - 1830 |
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Pagina 157 - Why have we the power of speech but to communicate our thoughts ? I will never believe that a man conscious of innocence cannot make other men perceive that he has that thought. Do not you feel that my whole heart tells me I am not guilty of what is imputed to me ? 'To you, Mr. Falkland, I have nothing to say. I know you, and know that you are impenetrable. At the very moment that you are urging such odious charges against me, you admire my resolution and forbearance.
Pagina 184 - For myself I looked round upon my walls, and forward upon the premature death I had too much reason to expect; I consulted my own heart that whispered nothing but innocence ; and I said, 'This is society. This is the object, the distribution of justice, which is the end of human reason. For this sages have toiled, and the midnight oil has been wasted. This ! ' The reader will forgive this digression from the immediate subject of my story.
Pagina 84 - You little suspect the extent of my power. At this moment you are enclosed with the snares of my vengeance unseen by yon, and, at the instant that you flatter yourself you are already beyond their reach, they will close upon you. You might as well think of escaping from the power of the omnipresent God, as from mine...
Pagina 51 - ... hastened into the garden, and plunged into the deepest of its thickets. My mind was full, almost to bursting. I no sooner conceived myself sufficiently removed from all observation, than my thoughts forced their way spontaneously to my tongue, and I exclaimed, in a fit of uncontrollable enthusiasm, " This is the murderer ; the Hawkinses were innocent ! I am sure of it ! I will pledge my life for it ! It is out ! It is discovered ! Guilty, upon my soul...
Pagina 117 - I thought with unspeakable loathing of those errors, in consequence of which every man is fated to be more or less the tyrant or the slave. I was astonished at the folly of my species, that they did not rise up as one man, and shake off chains so ignominious and misery so insupportable. So far as related to myself, I resolved — and this resolution has never been entirely forgotten by me — to hold myself disengaged from this odious scene, and never fill the part either of the oppressor or the...
Pagina 188 - I could not sink it in lethargy ; I could not forget my woes : they haunted me with unintermitted and demoniac malice. Cruel, inexorable policy of human affairs, that condemns a man to torture like this ; that sanctions it, and knows not what is done under its sanction ; that is too supine and unfeeling to inquire into these petty details ; that calls this the ordeal of innocence, and the protector of freedom ! A thousand times I could have dashed my brains against the walls of my dungeon ; a thousand...
Pagina 62 - To gratify a foolishly inquisitive humour you have sold yourself. You shall continue in my service, but can never share my affection. I will benefit you in respect of fortune, but I shall always hate you. If ever an unguarded word escape from your lips, if <ever you excite my jealousy or suspicion, expect to pay for it by your death or worse.
Pagina 16 - O poverty ! thou art indeed omnipotent ! Thou grindest us into desperation ; thou confoundest all our boasted and most deep-rooted principles ; thou fillest us to the very brim with malice and revenge, and renderest us capable of acts of unknown horror ! May I never be visited by thee in the fullness of thy power !
Pagina 59 - You must attest every sacrament, divine and human, never to disclose what I am now to tell you.' — He dictated the oath, and I repeated it with an aching heart. I had no power to offer a word of remark. 'This confidence,' said he, 'is of your seeking, not of mine.
Pagina 218 - Zounds, how I have been deceived ! They told me what a fine thing it was to be an Englishman, and about liberty and property, and all that there ; and I find it is all a flam. Lord, what fools we be ! Things are done under our very noses, and we know nothing of the matter ; and a parcel of fellows with grave faces swear to us that such things never happen but in France, and other countries the like of that.