Tale of Two CitiesHoughton, Osgood, 1880 |
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Page xv
... Carton's . Wrong or right , this was all design , and seemed to me to be in the fitness of things . " In all this , Dickens shows himself an admirable , interpretative critic , - at least of his own work . Nothing could be better than ...
... Carton's . Wrong or right , this was all design , and seemed to me to be in the fitness of things . " In all this , Dickens shows himself an admirable , interpretative critic , - at least of his own work . Nothing could be better than ...
Page xvi
... above all storms of circumstance in this exigency is Sydney Carton . It is useless , he knows , to save the victim doomed to the guillotine by any demonstration of his innocence . All he can do is to xvi INTRODUCTION .
... above all storms of circumstance in this exigency is Sydney Carton . It is useless , he knows , to save the victim doomed to the guillotine by any demonstration of his innocence . All he can do is to xvi INTRODUCTION .
Page xvii
... Carton . After weighing his words , which at first seem exaggerated , one is impelled at last to agree with him , that Carton stands out as one of the noblest characters in the whole literature of fiction . The more the character is ...
... Carton . After weighing his words , which at first seem exaggerated , one is impelled at last to agree with him , that Carton stands out as one of the noblest characters in the whole literature of fiction . The more the character is ...
Page xviii
... Carton's failure in life had made him not only indifferent to life , but heartily disgusted with it ; there was no prospect of possible self - amend- ment rising before his eyes to check in the least his design of self - immolation ...
... Carton's failure in life had made him not only indifferent to life , but heartily disgusted with it ; there was no prospect of possible self - amend- ment rising before his eyes to check in the least his design of self - immolation ...
Page xix
... Carton , and Sydney really gains every case which gives reputation to his employer , by his power of ex- tracting " the essence from a heap of statements , " — of getting at the very pith and marrow of every subject brought before his ...
... Carton , and Sydney really gains every case which gives reputation to his employer , by his power of ex- tracting " the essence from a heap of statements , " — of getting at the very pith and marrow of every subject brought before his ...
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Page ix - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 369 - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
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 368 - The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. TwentyThree. They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefulest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.
Page 363 - Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
Page 306 - I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.
Page 273 - In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease - a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
Page xix - 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...