Tale of Two CitiesHoughton, Osgood, 1880 |
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Page xiii
... head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread . " The stimulant which kindled Dickens's imagination was Car- lyle's wonderful prose epic , " The French Revolution , " which so captivated him that he re - read it ...
... head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread . " The stimulant which kindled Dickens's imagination was Car- lyle's wonderful prose epic , " The French Revolution , " which so captivated him that he re - read it ...
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... heads and tremulous tails , they mashed their way through the thick mud , floundering and stumbling between whiles as if ... head and everything upon it - like an unusually emphatic horse , denying that the coach could be got up the hill ...
... heads and tremulous tails , they mashed their way through the thick mud , floundering and stumbling between whiles as if ... head and everything upon it - like an unusually emphatic horse , denying that the coach could be got up the hill ...
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... head . Except on the crown , which was raggedly bald , he had stiff , black hair , standing jaggedly all over it , and growing down- hill almost to his broad , blunt nose . It was so like smith's work , so much more like the top of a ...
... head . Except on the crown , which was raggedly bald , he had stiff , black hair , standing jaggedly all over it , and growing down- hill almost to his broad , blunt nose . It was so like smith's work , so much more like the top of a ...
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... head was prematurely white . A hundred times the dozing passenger inquired of this spectre : " Buried how long ? " The answer was always the same : years . " " Almost eighteen " You had abandoned all hope of being dug out ? " " Long ago ...
... head was prematurely white . A hundred times the dozing passenger inquired of this spectre : " Buried how long ? " The answer was always the same : years . " " Almost eighteen " You had abandoned all hope of being dug out ? " " Long ago ...
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... head - drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach - door as his custom was . He did it with some flourish of ceremony , for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventu- rous traveller upon ...
... head - drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach - door as his custom was . He did it with some flourish of ceremony , for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventu- rous traveller upon ...
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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...