Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir Compiled Chiefly from His Literary Remains, Volumen2Chapman and Hall, 1887 |
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Página 58 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Página 59 - Can't that wise head of yours foresee the consequence of all this, brother Sterling? Will Sir John take Fanny without a fortune? No. — After you have settled the largest part of your property on your youngest daughter, can there be an equal portion left for the eldest? No. — Does not this overturn the whole systum of the fammaly ? Yes, yes, yes.
Página 294 - Her eyes are pale, her nose rather long, her mouth nothing particular. Complexion a delicate brick dust, her hair rather like tow. Yet somehow she is beautiful. Her expression kills any pretty face you see beside her. Her figure is lean and bony, her hand masculine in size and form. Yet she is a pattern of fawulike grace, whether in movement or repose. Grace pervades the hussy.
Página 17 - DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS. EVAN HARRINGTON. THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL. THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND.
Página 125 - A story better conceived, or better composed, better constructed, or better related, than 'The Cloister and the Hearth,' it would be difficult to find anywhere ; while the most enthusiastic devotees of 'Romola' must surely admit the well-nigh puerile insufficiency of some of the resources by which the story has to be pushed forward, or warped round, before it can be got into harbour.
Página 33 - A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND 4 „ ... 3 6 EDWIN DROOD and OTHER STORIES 8 3 6 CHRISTMAS STORIES, from "Household Words"... 8 ,, ...3 6 SKETCHES BY "BOZ...
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Página 26 - INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF DENMARK. From the Earliest Times to the Danish Conquest of England.
Página 322 - Apostle; and I can believe that God, pitying my tears and prayers, has given me his affectionate friendship to console me and temper the wind. Oh, to think that for five-and-twenty years I was blessed with Laura Seymour, and that now for the rest of my pilgrimage she is quite, quite gone. . . . Oh, my heart! my heart! I am wretched. I have lost my love of the world. I have not acquired the love of God. And I have no companion. . . . My dogs, and the portrait of my lost darling - they are all I have....
Página 31 - THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. With Seventy-five Illustrations by George Cattermole and HK Browne. 'A New Edition. Uniform with the other volumes, ;£i is.