The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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... hour " till she actually came to meet me , " he told Eckermann . To possess this vigour of phantasia , and to communicate it in a secondary degree to the reader ( as Dickens here does in a score of splendid passages ) , is to give proof ...
... hour " till she actually came to meet me , " he told Eckermann . To possess this vigour of phantasia , and to communicate it in a secondary degree to the reader ( as Dickens here does in a score of splendid passages ) , is to give proof ...
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... hours , unless upon an errand , and then he was represented by his son : a grisly urchin of twelve , who was his express image . People understood that Tellson's , in a stately way , tolerated the odd - job - man . The house had always ...
... hours , unless upon an errand , and then he was represented by his son : a grisly urchin of twelve , who was his express image . People understood that Tellson's , in a stately way , tolerated the odd - job - man . The house had always ...
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... hours with clean boots , he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay . " What , " said Mr. Cruncher , varying his apostrophe after missing his mark- " what are you up to , Aggerawayter ? ” " I was only saying ...
... hours with clean boots , he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay . " What , " said Mr. Cruncher , varying his apostrophe after missing his mark- " what are you up to , Aggerawayter ? ” " I was only saying ...
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... hour detecting his infamy , had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom , on the sacred altar of his country . That , if statues were decreed in Britain , as in ancient Greece and Rome , to public ...
... hour detecting his infamy , had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom , on the sacred altar of his country . That , if statues were decreed in Britain , as in ancient Greece and Rome , to public ...
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... hour did he come on board ? " At a little after midnight . " 99 " In the dead of the night . Was he the only passenger who came on board at that untimely hour ? " " He happened to be the only one . " " Never mind about happening , ' Mr ...
... hour did he come on board ? " At a little after midnight . " 99 " In the dead of the night . Was he the only passenger who came on board at that untimely hour ? " " He happened to be the only one . " " Never mind about happening , ' Mr ...
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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!