Master Humphrey's Clock: The old curiosity shopChapman and Hall, 1840 - 426 էջ |
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... lives in the varying current of the tale - he has insensibly fallen into the belief that they are present to his readers as they are to him , and has forgotten that like one whose vision is disordered he may be conjuring up bright ...
... lives in the varying current of the tale - he has insensibly fallen into the belief that they are present to his readers as they are to him , and has forgotten that like one whose vision is disordered he may be conjuring up bright ...
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... live . At present , it is true , my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody , but if I should carry my readers with me , as I hope to do , and there should spring up , between them and me , feelings of homely affection ...
... live . At present , it is true , my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody , but if I should carry my readers with me , as I hope to do , and there should spring up , between them and me , feelings of homely affection ...
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... live here , which was many years ago , the neighbours were curious to know who I was , and whence I came , and why I lived so much alone . As time went on , and they still remained unsatisfied on these points , I became the centre of a ...
... live here , which was many years ago , the neighbours were curious to know who I was , and whence I came , and why I lived so much alone . As time went on , and they still remained unsatisfied on these points , I became the centre of a ...
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... live . I have tried it , but there has always been an anxiety respecting me which has found me out . Your deaf friend is a cunning fellow to keep his name so close . I have tried that too , but have always failed . I shall be proud to ...
... live . I have tried it , but there has always been an anxiety respecting me which has found me out . Your deaf friend is a cunning fellow to keep his name so close . I have tried that too , but have always failed . I shall be proud to ...
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... live upon the premises , and at your expense , which I take it for granted is the case . If I am right in this impression I know a charming fellow ( an excellent companion and most delightful company ) who will be proud to join you ...
... live upon the premises , and at your expense , which I take it for granted is the case . If I am right in this impression I know a charming fellow ( an excellent companion and most delightful company ) who will be proud to join you ...
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Էջ 235 - Perhaps they'll think of me, and look this way.' He raised his head, and glanced from the fluttering signal to his idle bat, that lay with slate and book and other boyish property upon a table in the room. And then he laid him softly down once more, and asked if the little girl were there, for he could not see her.
Էջ 41 - I observed, roused by what I took to be his selfishness, " it always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity — two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them — and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
Էջ 38 - ... the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy church-yard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come...
Էջ 127 - My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea ; But, before I go, Tom Moore, Here's a double health to thee ! Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate ; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may...
Էջ 85 - ... cunning ; his mouth and chin, bristly with the stubble of a coarse hard beard ; and his complexion was one of that kind which never looks clean or wholesome. But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face, was a ghastly smile, which, appearing to be the mere result of habit and to...
Էջ 39 - This was said with no appearance of cunning or deceit, but with an unsuspicious frankness that bore the impress of truth. She walked on as before, growing more familiar with me as we proceeded and talking cheerfully by the way, but she said no more about her home, beyond remarking that we were going quite a new road and asking if it were a short one. "While we were thus engaged, I revolved in my mind a hundred different explanations of the riddle and rejected them every one. I really felt ashamed...
Էջ 127 - MARY, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that e'er I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving...