The Life of Charles Dickens: 1812-1842Lippincott, 1874 |
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afterwards allusion Barnaby Rudge Bayham Street blacking-warehouse Bob Fagin boyhood Broadstairs brother called Captain Chapman CHAPTER character Charles Dickens Chatham child childhood close connected cousin Daniel Tobin David Copperfield described Dickens's dinner early fancy father feeling fiction Furnival's Inn genius heard heart hope humor Hungerford Stairs Kate kind knew lady later letter lived Loch Earn lodging London look Maclise Marshalsea master ment mention misery month morning never Nickleby night Old Curiosity Shop Oliver Twist once opening paper Pickwick Pickwick Papers poor prison queer small boy readers recollect remember road Saturday scenes seen sent Seymour shillings sister sketches Sketches by Boz story strange taken tell thing Thomas Barrow thought tion Tobin told Tom Jones took walk week wife wonderful word writing written wrote young
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Página 206 - ... painted The ruddy tints of health On haggard face and form that drooped and fainted In the fierce race for wealth; Till one arose, and from his pack's scant treasure A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew. And then, while round them shadows gathered faster, And as the firelight fell. He read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of "Little Nell.
Página 100 - I objected, on consideration, that although born and partly bred in the country I was no great sportsman, except in regard of all kinds of locomotion ; that the idea was not novel, and had been already much used; that it would be infinitely better for the plates to arise naturally out of the text; and that I...
Página 59 - Until old Hungerford Market was pulled down, until old Hungerford Stairs were destroyed, and the very nature of the ground changed, I never had the courage to go back to the place where my servitude began. I never saw it. I could not endure to go near it. For many years, when I came near to Robert Warren's in the Strand, I crossed over to the opposite side of the way, to avoid a certain smell of the cement they put upon the blackingcorks, which reminded me of what I was once. It was a very long time...
Página 18 - All my early readings and early imaginations dated from this place, and I took them away so full of innocent construction and guileless belief, and I brought them back so worn and torn, so much the wiser and so much the worse ! XIII.
Página 44 - I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house opposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion and something else that I have forgotten.
Página 81 - The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different ; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles ; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies...
Página 43 - I think his little sister, did imps in the pantomimes. "No words can express the secret agony of my soul as I sank into this companionship ; compared these...
Página 100 - The idea propounded to me was, that the monthly something should be a vehicle for certain plates to be executed by Mr. Seymour ; and there was a notion, either on the part of that admirable humorous artist, or of my visitor (I forget which), that a
Página 200 - I am the wretchedest of the wretched. It casts the most horrible shadow upon me, and it is as much as I can do to keep moving at all. I tremble to approach the place a great deal more than Kit ; a great deal more than Mr. Garland ; a great deal more than the Single Gentleman. I shan't recover it for a long time. Nobody will miss her like I shall.
Página 204 - Flat,' and another), in which he had found such subtle strokes of character as he had not anywhere else in late years discovered ; the manner resembling himself, but the matter fresh to a degree that had surprised him ; the painting in all respects masterly, and the wild rude thing painted a quite wonderful reality. I 'have rarely known him more honestly moved?