The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, Volume 2Bradbury and Evans, 1850 - 372 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 93
Pagina 1
... woman . But Foker , though early wise was still a man . He could no more escape the common lot than Achilles , or Ajax , or Lord Nelson , or Adam our first father , and now , his time being come , young Harry became a victim to Love ...
... woman . But Foker , though early wise was still a man . He could no more escape the common lot than Achilles , or Ajax , or Lord Nelson , or Adam our first father , and now , his time being come , young Harry became a victim to Love ...
Pagina 5
... woman , ( who was seven and thirty years old , if she was a day , ) filled his mind with dreary disgust now , instead of that pleasure which he had only yesterday expected to find from the entertainment . When his fond mamma beheld her ...
... woman , ( who was seven and thirty years old , if she was a day , ) filled his mind with dreary disgust now , instead of that pleasure which he had only yesterday expected to find from the entertainment . When his fond mamma beheld her ...
Pagina 6
... woman , " Harry said . " But it isn't the Back Kitchen , neither , " he added , with a ghastly sigh . As Lady Agnes never denied her son anything , and fell into all his ways with the fondest acquiescence , she was rewarded by a perfect ...
... woman , " Harry said . " But it isn't the Back Kitchen , neither , " he added , with a ghastly sigh . As Lady Agnes never denied her son anything , and fell into all his ways with the fondest acquiescence , she was rewarded by a perfect ...
Pagina 9
... woman , who is not conquered by it , or who does not conquer it in his time . . . Now , then , if you ask why Henry Foker , Esquire , was in such a hurry to see Arthur Pendennis , and felt such a sudden value and esteem for him , there ...
... woman , who is not conquered by it , or who does not conquer it in his time . . . Now , then , if you ask why Henry Foker , Esquire , was in such a hurry to see Arthur Pendennis , and felt such a sudden value and esteem for him , there ...
Pagina 10
... woman in a pink bonnet across a ditch ? What is the earthly good to be got out of a nod of the head ? Strange that men will be contented with such pleasures , or if not contented , at least that they will be so eager in seeking them ...
... woman in a pink bonnet across a ditch ? What is the earthly good to be got out of a nod of the head ? Strange that men will be contented with such pleasures , or if not contented , at least that they will be so eager in seeking them ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The history of Pendennis: his fortunes and misfortunes, his ..., Volume 2 Thackeray Volledige weergave - 1850 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ain't Altamont Arthur Pendennis asked Baronet begad blushed Bonner Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain Costigan carriage chambers Chatteris Clavering family Colonel creature cried daughter dear delight dev'lish dinner Doctor door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny Bolton Fanny's fellow Foker fond girl give Glanders Grosvenor Place hand happy Harry heard heart Helen honour Huxter kind knew Lady Clavering Lady Clavering's Lady Rockminster Lamb Court laughed Laura letter Lightfoot little Fanny lodge London looked Lord Steyne Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Miss Amory Miss Bell Miss Blanche Morgan mother never night old gentleman Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's Pendennis's perhaps poor little pretty Rosenbad Shandon Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering speak story Strong talk tell thing thought told took Tunbridge uncle Vauxhall voice walked Walter Lorraine Warrington widow wish woman word young lady
Populaire passages
Pagina 362 - I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.
Pagina 237 - I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.
Pagina 309 - ... outline of the elder man's tour thus gloomily sketched out, the young one begins to speak. He has been in the country — very much bored — canvassing — uncommonly slow — he is here for a day or two, and going on to — to the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells, to some friends — that will be uncommonly slow, too. How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy ! "And the seat in Parliament, Pen? Have you made it all right ? " asks Warrington. "All right, — as soon as...
Pagina vii - Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, uo writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. "VVe must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art.
Pagina v - TP this kind of composition, of which the two years' product is now laid before the public, fail in art, as it constantly does and must, it at least has the advantage of a certain truth and honesty, which a work more elaborate might lose. In his constant communication with the reader, the writer is forced into frankness of expression, and to speak out his own mind and feelings as they urge him.
Pagina 237 - ... of his terrace, and muse over preacher and audience, and turn to his roll of Plato, or his pleasant Greek song-book babbling of honey and Hybla, and nymphs and fountains and love. To what, we say, does this scepticism lead? It leads a man to a shameful loneliness and selfishness, so to speak — the more shameful, because it is so goodhumoured and conscienceless and serene. Conscience! What is conscience ? Why accept remorse ? What is public or private faith? Mythuses alike enveloped in enormous...
Pagina 189 - As they were talking the clock struck nine, and Helen reminded him how, when he was a little boy, she used to go up to his hed-room at that hour, and hear him say Our Father. And once more, oh, once more, the young man fell down at his mother's sacred knees, and sobbed out the prayer which the Divine Tenderness uttered for us, and which has been echoed for twenty ages since by millions of sinful and humbled men. And as he spoke the last words of the supplication, the mother's head fell down on her...