The History of Pendennis, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 páginas |
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... Major Pendennis would have made no sort of objection to join a party of pleasure , provided that it were en petit comité , and that such men as my Lord Steyne and my Lord Colchicum were of the society . Give the young men their ...
... Major Pendennis would have made no sort of objection to join a party of pleasure , provided that it were en petit comité , and that such men as my Lord Steyne and my Lord Colchicum were of the society . Give the young men their ...
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... major , looking hard at Pen . Pen , with a laugh , said " that at one time he did think he was pretty well in Miss Amory's good graces . But my mother did not like her , and the affair went off . " Pen did not think it fit to tell his ...
... major , looking hard at Pen . Pen , with a laugh , said " that at one time he did think he was pretty well in Miss Amory's good graces . But my mother did not like her , and the affair went off . " Pen did not think it fit to tell his ...
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... major here broke out , gal- lantly , and to his nephew's special surprise , " beg these ladies to honor us with their company at Greenwich ? Is Lady Clavering to go on for- ever being hospitable to us , and may we make no return ? Speak ...
... major here broke out , gal- lantly , and to his nephew's special surprise , " beg these ladies to honor us with their company at Greenwich ? Is Lady Clavering to go on for- ever being hospitable to us , and may we make no return ? Speak ...
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... Pendennis had a manuscript novel ; professed him- self anxious to have a ... Pendennis finally received for the first edition of his novel of " Walter Lorraine ... Major Pendennis advised the latter move strongly ; he opened his eyes with ...
... Pendennis had a manuscript novel ; professed him- self anxious to have a ... Pendennis finally received for the first edition of his novel of " Walter Lorraine ... Major Pendennis advised the latter move strongly ; he opened his eyes with ...
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... Major Pendennis would not much have relished their com- pany , Arthur and Warrington liked it not a little 38 PENDENNIS .
... Major Pendennis would not much have relished their com- pany , Arthur and Warrington liked it not a little 38 PENDENNIS .
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The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His ..., Volume 2 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização integral - 1858 |
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His ..., Volume 2 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização integral - 1850 |
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His ..., Volume 2 William Makepeace Thackeray Visualização integral - 1858 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
ain't Altamont Ann Milton Arthur Pendennis asked baronet begad Begum blushed Bonner Bows Brixham Bungay called Captain carriage chambers Chatteris Clavering family colonel Costigan creature cried daughter dear delight dev'lish dinner door eyes face Fairoaks Fanny Bolton fellow fond fortune girl give Glanders hand happy Harry Foker heard heart Helen honor Huxter kind knew Lady Clavering Lady Clavering's Lady Rockminster laugh Laura letter Lightfoot little Fanny live lodge London looked Major Pendennis mamma marriage marry Mirabel Miss Amory Miss Bell Miss Blanche Morgan morning mother Muslin never night old gentleman old Pendennis Pall Mall Gazette passed Pen's Pendennis's perhaps pretty Rosenbad Shandon Shepherd's Sir Francis Clavering speak story Strong talk tell thing thought told took Tunbridge uncle voice walked Warrington widow wife wish woman word young lady
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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...