The History of Pendennis, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 1
... wonder that he should fall into the mishap to which most of us are sub- ject once or twice in our lives , and disquiet his great mind about a woman . But Foker , though early wise , was still a man . He could no more escape the common ...
... wonder that he should fall into the mishap to which most of us are sub- ject once or twice in our lives , and disquiet his great mind about a woman . But Foker , though early wise , was still a man . He could no more escape the common ...
Pagina 9
... wonder , would Lady Ann Milton , Mr. Foker's cousin and pré- tendue , have said , if her ladyship had known all that was going on in the bosom of that funny little gentleman ? Alas ! when Foker reached Lamb - court , leaving his ...
... wonder , would Lady Ann Milton , Mr. Foker's cousin and pré- tendue , have said , if her ladyship had known all that was going on in the bosom of that funny little gentleman ? Alas ! when Foker reached Lamb - court , leaving his ...
Pagina 13
... wonder how the deuce I could ever have liked these people , " he thought in his own mind . " Why , I can see the crow's - feet under Rougemont's eyes , and the paint on her cheeks is laid on as thick as clown's in a pantomime ! The way ...
... wonder how the deuce I could ever have liked these people , " he thought in his own mind . " Why , I can see the crow's - feet under Rougemont's eyes , and the paint on her cheeks is laid on as thick as clown's in a pantomime ! The way ...
Pagina 27
... wonder of wonders , but it will do very well . " : " Do you think so , Warrington ? " said Pen , delighted ; for this was great praise from his cynical friend . " You silly young fool ! I think it's uncommonly clever , " Warring- ton ...
... wonder of wonders , but it will do very well . " : " Do you think so , Warrington ? " said Pen , delighted ; for this was great praise from his cynical friend . " You silly young fool ! I think it's uncommonly clever , " Warring- ton ...
Pagina 28
... wonder , asked him whether he didn't think the apartments were elegant , and if he would like , for Mrs. Bacon's drawing - room , any of the articles of furniture ? Mr. Warrington's character as a humorist , was known to Mr. Bacon : " I ...
... wonder , asked him whether he didn't think the apartments were elegant , and if he would like , for Mrs. Bacon's drawing - room , any of the articles of furniture ? Mr. Warrington's character as a humorist , was known to Mr. Bacon : " I ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ain't Altamont Ann Milton Arthur Pendennis asked baronet begad Begum blushed Bonner Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain carriage chambers Chatteris Clavering family colonel Costigan creature cried daughter dear delight dev'lish dinner door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny Bolton fellow fond fortune girl give Glanders hand happy Harry Foker heard heart Helen honor Huxter kind knew Lady Clavering Lady Clavering's Lady Rockminster laugh Laura letter Lightfoot little Fanny live lodge London looked Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Mirabel Miss Amory Miss Bell Miss Blanche Morgan morning mother Muslin never night old gentleman old Pendennis Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's Pendennis's perhaps pretty Rosenbad Shandon Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering speak story Strong talk tell thing thought told took Tunbridge uncle voice walked Warrington widow wife wish woman word young lady
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...