The History of Pendennis, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1850 - 392 páginas |
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... lives and their educa- tion . Since the author of Tom Jones was buried , no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict , to his ut- most power , a MAN . We must drape him , and give him a certain conventional simper ...
... lives and their educa- tion . Since the author of Tom Jones was buried , no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict , to his ut- most power , a MAN . We must drape him , and give him a certain conventional simper ...
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... lives , and disquiet his great mind about a woman . But Foker , though early wise , was still a man . He could no more escape the common lot than Achilles , or Ajax , or Lord Nelson , or Adam our first father , and now , his time being ...
... lives , and disquiet his great mind about a woman . But Foker , though early wise , was still a man . He could no more escape the common lot than Achilles , or Ajax , or Lord Nelson , or Adam our first father , and now , his time being ...
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... live near her in the country ? -know all about the enchantress ? What , I wonder , would Lady Ann Milton , Mr. Foker's cousin and pré- tendue , have said , if her ladyship had known all that was going on in the bosom of that funny ...
... live near her in the country ? -know all about the enchantress ? What , I wonder , would Lady Ann Milton , Mr. Foker's cousin and pré- tendue , have said , if her ladyship had known all that was going on in the bosom of that funny ...
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... live in a grand house , he comes and stays in these rickety old chambers with me . He's a man that can afford to live any where . " 66 ' I fancy it don't cost him much here , " thought Mr. Bacon ; and the object of these praises ...
... live in a grand house , he comes and stays in these rickety old chambers with me . He's a man that can afford to live any where . " 66 ' I fancy it don't cost him much here , " thought Mr. Bacon ; and the object of these praises ...
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... live properly , take respectable apartments , and keep a brougham . " And on this simple calculation it was that the major counseled Pen . Arthur , laughing , told Warrington what his uncle's advice had been ; but he luckily had a much ...
... live properly , take respectable apartments , and keep a brougham . " And on this simple calculation it was that the major counseled Pen . Arthur , laughing , told Warrington what his uncle's advice had been ; but he luckily had a much ...
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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...