The works of Charles Dickens. Household ed. [22 vols. Orig. issued in monthly parts].1871 |
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... round dozen of years , after rapping out its messages , as the spirits of this very year last past ( supernaturally ... rounds of shot and ball ; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing - rooms ...
... round dozen of years , after rapping out its messages , as the spirits of this very year last past ( supernaturally ... rounds of shot and ball ; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing - rooms ...
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... round it as it began the descent . The guard soon replaced his blunder- buss in his arm - chest , and , having looked to the rest of its contents , and having looked to the supplementary pistols that he wore in his belt , looked to a ...
... round it as it began the descent . The guard soon replaced his blunder- buss in his arm - chest , and , having looked to the rest of its contents , and having looked to the supplementary pistols that he wore in his belt , looked to a ...
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... rounded , each by its own jostling group or crowd , according to its size . Some men kneeled down , made scoops of their two hands joined , and sipped , or tried to help women , who bent over their shoulders , to sip , before the wine ...
... rounded , each by its own jostling group or crowd , according to its size . Some men kneeled down , made scoops of their two hands joined , and sipped , or tried to help women , who bent over their shoulders , to sip , before the wine ...
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... round the shop among the customers for any new customer who had dropped in while he stepped over the way . The wine - shop keeper accordingly rolled his eyes about until they rested upon an elderly gentleman and a young lady , who were ...
... round the shop among the customers for any new customer who had dropped in while he stepped over the way . The wine - shop keeper accordingly rolled his eyes about until they rested upon an elderly gentleman and a young lady , who were ...
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... round the wine- shop , took up her knitting with great apparent calmness and repose of spirit , and became ab- sorbed in it . " Gentlemen , " said her husband , who had kept his bright eye observantly upon her , " good day . The chamber ...
... round the wine- shop , took up her knitting with great apparent calmness and repose of spirit , and became ab- sorbed in it . " Gentlemen , " said her husband , who had kept his bright eye observantly upon her , " good day . The chamber ...
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Page 2 - ... age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative...
Page 6 - A WONDERFUL fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
Page 175 - Guillotine. And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms.
Page 2 - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
Page 175 - Six tumbrils roll along the streets. Change these back again to what they were, thou powerful enchanter, Time, and they shall be seen to be the carriages of absolute monarchs, the equipages of feudal nobles, the toilettes of flaring Jezebels, the churches that are not my father's house but dens of thieves, the huts of millions of starving peasants!
Page 6 - I stood in ignorance on the shore. My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality; and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial-places in this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?