The History of Pendennis, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 páginas |
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... daughters of his maternal uncle , the respectable Earl of Rosherville , wearied him beyond measure . One was blue , and a geologist , one was a horsewoman , and smoked cigars ; one was exceedingly Low Church , and had the most heterodox ...
... daughters of his maternal uncle , the respectable Earl of Rosherville , wearied him beyond measure . One was blue , and a geologist , one was a horsewoman , and smoked cigars ; one was exceedingly Low Church , and had the most heterodox ...
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... daughters of Lord Gravesend whose various qualities have been enumerated in the former paragraph , his lordship was blessed with a fifth girl , the Lady Ann Milton , who , from her earliest years and nursery , had been destined to a ...
... daughters of Lord Gravesend whose various qualities have been enumerated in the former paragraph , his lordship was blessed with a fifth girl , the Lady Ann Milton , who , from her earliest years and nursery , had been destined to a ...
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... daughter . " " O , that little creature ! " Lady Agnes cried . Harry . " " No , I think not , " I - I want to ask Pen- " We must ask Miss Amory , " Foker said . dennis ; and he's very sweet upon her . Don't you think she sings very well ...
... daughter . " " O , that little creature ! " Lady Agnes cried . Harry . " " No , I think not , " I - I want to ask Pen- " We must ask Miss Amory , " Foker said . dennis ; and he's very sweet upon her . Don't you think she sings very well ...
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... daughter . one asked who Clavering was ? -and old Tom Eales , who knew every body , and never missed a day in the Park on his gray cob , kindly said that Clavering had come into an estate over head and heels in mortgage : that there ...
... daughter . one asked who Clavering was ? -and old Tom Eales , who knew every body , and never missed a day in the Park on his gray cob , kindly said that Clavering had come into an estate over head and heels in mortgage : that there ...
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... daughters , of whom the one who spoke was Harry's betrothed , the Lady Ann . He started back with a pale , scared look , as a truth about which he had not thought during the whole day , came across him . There was his fate , there , in ...
... daughters , of whom the one who spoke was Harry's betrothed , the Lady Ann . He started back with a pale , scared look , as a truth about which he had not thought during the whole day , came across him . There was his fate , there , in ...
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The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes And Misfortunes, His Friends And His ... J I M Stewart,William Thackeray Pré-visualização limitada - 1986 |
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His ... William Makepeace Thackeray Pré-visualização indisponível - 2015 |
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends, and His ... William Makepeace Thackeray Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |
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...