The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... children , though they figure as grown men . In Thackeray's splendid picture of the King , in Esmond , there is hardly one line or touch of colour consistent with historical verity . This is hard on the character , and Dickens's wicked ...
... children , though they figure as grown men . In Thackeray's splendid picture of the King , in Esmond , there is hardly one line or touch of colour consistent with historical verity . This is hard on the character , and Dickens's wicked ...
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... children , in Wilkie Collins's Frozen Deep , during the summer of 1857. In the end of January , 1858 , he reverted to the notion , partly because work at a story would relieve his " worried mind . " A number of titles were thought of ...
... children , in Wilkie Collins's Frozen Deep , during the summer of 1857. In the end of January , 1858 , he reverted to the notion , partly because work at a story would relieve his " worried mind . " A number of titles were thought of ...
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... to M. Regnier , to be dramatised . But the censure , as M. Regnier saw , would have replied- " Incedis per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso . " ANDREW LANG . PREFACE . WHEN I was acting , with my children xii INTRODUCTION .
... to M. Regnier , to be dramatised . But the censure , as M. Regnier saw , would have replied- " Incedis per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso . " ANDREW LANG . PREFACE . WHEN I was acting , with my children xii INTRODUCTION .
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Charles Dickens. PREFACE . WHEN I was acting , with my children and friends , in Mr. WILKIE COLLINS's drama of The Frozen Deep , I first conceived the main idea of this story . A strong desire was upon me then , to embody it in my own ...
Charles Dickens. PREFACE . WHEN I was acting , with my children and friends , in Mr. WILKIE COLLINS's drama of The Frozen Deep , I first conceived the main idea of this story . A strong desire was upon me then , to embody it in my own ...
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... child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel , one cold time , when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high . The likeness passed away , like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier - glass ...
... child whom he had held in his arms on the passage across that very Channel , one cold time , when the hail drifted heavily and the sea ran high . The likeness passed away , like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier - glass ...
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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!