The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 21Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1898 |
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Page vi
... present characters dead long before the tale begins - or at that time 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 ...
... present characters dead long before the tale begins - or at that time 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 ...
Page xii
... present him with a jeune première of great interest , and the heroine of A Tale of Two Cities is even as most heroines of male novelists . The turn which makes Miss Pross an accidental avenging angel , was censured , as if Dickens ...
... present him with a jeune première of great interest , and the heroine of A Tale of Two Cities is even as most heroines of male novelists . The turn which makes Miss Pross an accidental avenging angel , was censured , as if Dickens ...
Page xiii
... present form . Throughout its execution , it has had complete possession of me ; I have so far verified what is done and suffered in these pages , as that I have certainly done and suffered it all myself . Whenever any reference ...
... present form . Throughout its execution , it has had complete possession of me ; I have so far verified what is done and suffered in these pages , as that I have certainly done and suffered it all myself . Whenever any reference ...
Page xxiii
... present period , that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received , for good or for evil , in the superlative degree of comparison only . There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face , on the ...
... present period , that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received , for good or for evil , in the superlative degree of comparison only . There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face , on the ...
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... present mode . I never saw the mode . I have had a pattern in my hand . " He glanced at the shoe with some little passing touch of pride . " And the maker's name ? " said Defarge . Now that he had no work to hold , he laid the knuckles ...
... present mode . I never saw the mode . I have had a pattern in my hand . " He glanced at the shoe with some little passing touch of pride . " And the maker's name ? " said Defarge . Now that he had no work to hold , he laid the knuckles ...
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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!