Charles Dickens, the story of his life, by the author of 'The life of Thackeray'. Popular ed. [Followed by] Speeches literary and social, by C. Dickens |
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... writer will be obliged by the receipt of any additional particulars which may assist in completing the outline ... writers of interesting articles in the Daily News and the Observer , and to Mr. Hablot K. Browne , for his admirable study ...
... writer will be obliged by the receipt of any additional particulars which may assist in completing the outline ... writers of interesting articles in the Daily News and the Observer , and to Mr. Hablot K. Browne , for his admirable study ...
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... writers of Abingdon Street , West- minster . It is said , that during his probation , and whilst practising shorthand writing , Dickens passed the leisure hours of some two years in the Library of the British Museum . The manner in ...
... writers of Abingdon Street , West- minster . It is said , that during his probation , and whilst practising shorthand writing , Dickens passed the leisure hours of some two years in the Library of the British Museum . The manner in ...
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... writing on the palm of my hand by the light of a dark lantern in a post- chaise and four , galloping through a wild country , through the dead of the night , at the then surprising rate of fifteen miles an hour . The very last time I ...
... writing on the palm of my hand by the light of a dark lantern in a post- chaise and four , galloping through a wild country , through the dead of the night , at the then surprising rate of fifteen miles an hour . The very last time I ...
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... writing for his Metropolitan Magazine , which was started by Thomas Campbell and Tom Moore , in opposition to the New Monthly Magazine , and at the rate of twenty guineas per sheet for my contributions to the Penny Cyclopædia . " Only ...
... writing for his Metropolitan Magazine , which was started by Thomas Campbell and Tom Moore , in opposition to the New Monthly Magazine , and at the rate of twenty guineas per sheet for my contributions to the Penny Cyclopædia . " Only ...
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... writer . " Dr. Mackay was sub - editor of the Morning Chronicle when Dickens was a reporter . He continues : - " I have often heard Black speak of him , and predict his future fame . When Dickens had become famous , Black exerted all ...
... writer . " Dr. Mackay was sub - editor of the Morning Chronicle when Dickens was a reporter . He continues : - " I have often heard Black speak of him , and predict his future fame . When Dickens had become famous , Black exerted all ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 38 - I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.
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Página 325 - Oh ! it is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach, but let no man reject it, for it is one that all must learn, and is a mighty, universal Truth. When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.
Página 19 - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
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Página 38 - Magazine in which my first effusion — dropped stealthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, into a dark letter-box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet Street...
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