Works of Charles Dickens

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Chapman & Hall, and Bradbury and Evans, 1866
 

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Seite 303 - A verb is a word which signifies to be, to do, or to suffer ; as, I am — I rule — I am ruled.
Seite 262 - I will.' CXLIII He search'd, they search'd, and rummaged everywhere, Closet and clothes-press, chest and window-seat, And found much linen, lace, and several pair Of stockings, slippers, brushes, combs, complete, With other articles of ladies fair, To keep them beautiful, or leave them neat: Arras they prick'd and curtains with their swords, And wounded several shutters, and some boards.
Seite 474 - ... failed him. He raised his head and looked up the long dismal street. He recollected that outcasts like himself, condemned to wander day and night in those dreadful streets, had sometimes gone distracted with their own loneliness. He remembered to have heard many years before that a homeless wretch had once been found in a solitary corner, sharpening a rusty knife to plunge into his own heart, preferring death to that endless, weary, wandering to and fro.
Seite 171 - ... and in white greatcoats, almost their only covering ; boys of all ages, in coats of all sizes and no coats at all; men and women, in every variety of scanty and dirty apparel, lounging, scolding, drinking, smoking, squabbling, fighting, and swearing.
Seite 406 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. Des. The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!
Seite 205 - Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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