The History of Pendennis, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 páginas |
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... Costigan , has examined Campion's cab and horse many an afternoon , as he trailed about the court in his carpet slippers and dressing - gown , with his old hat cocked over his eye . suns himself there after his breakfast when the day is ...
... Costigan , has examined Campion's cab and horse many an afternoon , as he trailed about the court in his carpet slippers and dressing - gown , with his old hat cocked over his eye . suns himself there after his breakfast when the day is ...
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... Costigan has had the carriages of visitors of distinction before his humble door in Shepherd's Inn and to hear him talk of a morning ( for his evening song is of a much more melancholy nature ) you would fancy that Sir Charles and Lady ...
... Costigan has had the carriages of visitors of distinction before his humble door in Shepherd's Inn and to hear him talk of a morning ( for his evening song is of a much more melancholy nature ) you would fancy that Sir Charles and Lady ...
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... Costigan . On the first two or three visits to his son - in - law , Costigan maintained a strict sobriety , content to make up for his lost time when he got to the Back - Kitchen , where he bragged about his son - in - law's clart and ...
... Costigan . On the first two or three visits to his son - in - law , Costigan maintained a strict sobriety , content to make up for his lost time when he got to the Back - Kitchen , where he bragged about his son - in - law's clart and ...
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... Costigan was in the hall waiting for an answer ; or when he went to play his rubber at the Travelers ' , to be obliged to shoot out of his brougham and run up the steps rapidly , lest his father - in - law should seize upon him ; and to ...
... Costigan was in the hall waiting for an answer ; or when he went to play his rubber at the Travelers ' , to be obliged to shoot out of his brougham and run up the steps rapidly , lest his father - in - law should seize upon him ; and to ...
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... Costigan next door at No. 4 ; and by reaching over the communicating leads , Grady could command the mignonnette - box which bloomed in Bows's window . From Grady's kitchen casement often came odors still more fragrant . The three old ...
... Costigan next door at No. 4 ; and by reaching over the communicating leads , Grady could command the mignonnette - box which bloomed in Bows's window . From Grady's kitchen casement often came odors still more fragrant . The three old ...
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The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His ..., Volume 2 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização integral - 1858 |
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Página 237 - ... :—I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.
Página 363 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.
Página 9 - ... who could it be but he ? And as you suffer it, so will your brothers, in their way, — and after their kind. More selfish than you : more eager and headstrong than you : they will rush on their destiny when the doomed charmer makes her appearance. Or if they don't, and you don't, Heaven help you ! As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
Página 237 - ... than a laugh ; if, plunged yourself in easy sensuality, you allow the whole wretched world to pass groaning by you unmoved : if the fight for the truth is taking place, and all men of honour are on the ground armed on the one side or the other, and you alone are to lie on your balcony and smoke your pipe out of the noise and the danger, you had better have died, or never have been at all, than such a sensual coward.
Página 236 - ... is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development of the mind of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truth-avoiding man. And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him...