 Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period,...  Trunkenheit: Kulturen des Rausches - Page 88edited by - 2008 - 266 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1993 - 356 pages
...sentence 287 A TALE OF TWO CITIES BOOK THE FIRST Recalled to Life CHAPTER I The Period IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, it was the worst of times, it was the age of...jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.1 In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves... | |
 | Robert Johanson - 1995 - 132 pages
...shop in Paris and Tellson 's Bank in London. DARNA Y and CARTON appear as at the beginning. DARNAY. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; CARTON. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a... | |
 | Molly E. Holzschlag - 2001 - 984 pages
...being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. </para> <para> There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face,... | |
 | Margaret Cohen, Carolyn Dever - 2002 - 331 pages
...of A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens constructs that rivalry in terms of mimetic identification: "There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2003 - 546 pages
...Die Out For Ever 384 BOOK THE FIRST RECALLED TO LIFE CHAPTER I The Period It was the best of times,1 it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,...jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.2 In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2004 - 1354 pages
...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 throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face,... | |
 | Robert Johanson - 2006 - 64 pages
...was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of England. DARNAY. There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face on the throne of France — but not for long. LUCIE. On July 1, 1789, the citizens of France stormed the Bastille to strike... | |
 | Ruth F. Glancy - 2006 - 198 pages
...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 throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2006 - 598 pages
...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 throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face,... | |
 | Nancy Claxton - 2008 - 196 pages
...authorities insisted on 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 throne of England; there was a king with a large jaw, and a queen with a fair face,... | |
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