The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... Carton . The French Revolution has been a fertile but not a fortunate field for novelists . Scott justly observed , about some other historical events , that they are , in themselves , too strong for romantic treatment . Nothing can add ...
... Carton . The French Revolution has been a fertile but not a fortunate field for novelists . Scott justly observed , about some other historical events , that they are , in themselves , too strong for romantic treatment . Nothing can add ...
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... Carton , and Mr. Stryver , and Madame Defarge are surely characters memorable enough . Carton has been argued against , as not a plausible character , and , in the nature of the case , he is not a usual character . But there is nothing ...
... Carton , and Mr. Stryver , and Madame Defarge are surely characters memorable enough . Carton has been argued against , as not a plausible character , and , in the nature of the case , he is not a usual character . But there is nothing ...
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... Carton at the nick of time . Such allowances are the common right of novelists . Indeed , when Dickens , writing to Monsieur Regnier of the Comédie Française , called this book " the best story I have written , " his self - criticism ...
... Carton at the nick of time . Such allowances are the common right of novelists . Indeed , when Dickens , writing to Monsieur Regnier of the Comédie Française , called this book " the best story I have written , " his self - criticism ...
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... Carton . The grim ingenuity of the device by which Jerry learns that Cly is not dead , accounts for the introduction of a character common enough , at the time and much later , the Resurrectionist . That a man in his position should ...
... Carton . The grim ingenuity of the device by which Jerry learns that Cly is not dead , accounts for the introduction of a character common enough , at the time and much later , the Resurrectionist . That a man in his position should ...
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... Carton ( name of my learned friend ) for treason ? But , Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord , no ; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once , might happen twice ; whether he would have been so confident if he had ...
... Carton ( name of my learned friend ) for treason ? But , Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord , no ; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once , might happen twice ; whether he would have been so confident if he had ...
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Page 12 - 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!