The History of Pendennis, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 páginas |
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... Mirabel that is now . I saw her last night at Lady Whiston's . She asked me to a party at her house , and said that , as old friends , we ought to meet oftener . She has been seeing me any time these two years in town , and never ...
... Mirabel that is now . I saw her last night at Lady Whiston's . She asked me to a party at her house , and said that , as old friends , we ought to meet oftener . She has been seeing me any time these two years in town , and never ...
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... Mirabel . Mrs. Bolton was herself in the profession once , and danced at the Wells in early days as the thirteenth of Mr. Serle's forty pupils . Costigan lives in the third floor at No. 4 , in the rooms which were Mr. Podmore's , and ...
... Mirabel . Mrs. Bolton was herself in the profession once , and danced at the Wells in early days as the thirteenth of Mr. Serle's forty pupils . Costigan lives in the third floor at No. 4 , in the rooms which were Mr. Podmore's , and ...
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... Mirabel were in the constant habit of calling at his chambers , and bringing with them the select nobility to visit the “ old man , the honest old half - pay captain , poor old Jack Costigan , " as Cos calls himself . The truth is ...
... Mirabel were in the constant habit of calling at his chambers , and bringing with them the select nobility to visit the “ old man , the honest old half - pay captain , poor old Jack Costigan , " as Cos calls himself . The truth is ...
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... Mirabel's drawing - room table , was harmless , if it was absurd . As he clothed his person in his best attire , so he selected the longest and richest words in his vocabulary to deck his conversation , and adopted a solemnity of de ...
... Mirabel's drawing - room table , was harmless , if it was absurd . As he clothed his person in his best attire , so he selected the longest and richest words in his vocabulary to deck his conversation , and adopted a solemnity of de ...
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... Mirabel , alarmed about her father's safety , and per- haps reproaching herself that she had of late lost sight of her father . called for her carriage and drove to Shepherd's Inn , at the gate of which she alighted , whence she found ...
... Mirabel , alarmed about her father's safety , and per- haps reproaching herself that she had of late lost sight of her father . called for her carriage and drove to Shepherd's Inn , at the gate of which she alighted , whence she found ...
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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...