The History of Pendennis, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 2
... present time , much accustomed to the society of females of his own rank in life . When he spoke of such , he called them " modest women . " That virtue which , let us hope they possessed , had not hitherto compensated to Mr. Foker for ...
... present time , much accustomed to the society of females of his own rank in life . When he spoke of such , he called them " modest women . " That virtue which , let us hope they possessed , had not hitherto compensated to Mr. Foker for ...
Pagina 13
... present emanations of your valuable and acute intel- lect , old boy ! " . " What the deuce is that Poyntz a talking about ? " Mrs. Calverley asked of her neighbor . ' I hate him . He's a drawlin ' , sneerin ' beast . " 66 " What a droll ...
... present emanations of your valuable and acute intel- lect , old boy ! " . " What the deuce is that Poyntz a talking about ? " Mrs. Calverley asked of her neighbor . ' I hate him . He's a drawlin ' , sneerin ' beast . " 66 " What a droll ...
Pagina 15
... present youth . Old Pendennis seldom missed going to church . He considered it to be his duty as a gentleman to patronize the institution of public worship , and that it was quite a correct thing to be seen in church of a Sunday . One ...
... present youth . Old Pendennis seldom missed going to church . He considered it to be his duty as a gentleman to patronize the institution of public worship , and that it was quite a correct thing to be seen in church of a Sunday . One ...
Pagina 30
... present prosperity , and for sending him such dear and kind friends to support him in his ill - fortune , -when Doctor Portman read this portion of the letter , his voice faltered , and his eyes twinkled behind his spectacles . And when ...
... present prosperity , and for sending him such dear and kind friends to support him in his ill - fortune , -when Doctor Portman read this portion of the letter , his voice faltered , and his eyes twinkled behind his spectacles . And when ...
Pagina 51
... present at logo the grand entertainment at Sung Gaunt House ? There was W to be a very pretty breakfast ball at Viscount Marrow- fat's , at Fulham . Every balodu body was to be there ( includ- ing august personages of the highest rank ) ...
... present at logo the grand entertainment at Sung Gaunt House ? There was W to be a very pretty breakfast ball at Viscount Marrow- fat's , at Fulham . Every balodu body was to be there ( includ- ing august personages of the highest rank ) ...
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Populaire passages
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 363 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.
Pagina 9 - ... who could it be but he ? And as you suffer it, so will your brothers, in their way, — and after their kind. More selfish than you : more eager and headstrong than you : they will rush on their destiny when the doomed charmer makes her appearance. Or if they don't, and you don't, Heaven help you ! As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
Pagina 237 - ... than a laugh ; if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass groaning by you unmoved : if the fight for the truth is taking place, and all men of honour are on the ground armed on the one side or the other, and you alone are to lie on your balcony and smoke your pipe out of the noise and the danger, you had better have died, or never have been at all, than such a sensual coward.
Pagina 236 - ... is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development of the mind of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truth-avoiding man. And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him...