Works of Charles DickensChapman & Hall, and Bradbury and Evans, 1866 |
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... seen great sullen hills , the first indications of the Alps , lowering in the distance . Now , we were rushing on beside them : sometimes close beside them : sometimes with an intervening slope , covered with vineyards . Villages and ...
... seen great sullen hills , the first indications of the Alps , lowering in the distance . Now , we were rushing on beside them : sometimes close beside them : sometimes with an intervening slope , covered with vineyards . Villages and ...
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... seen it in a blaze from ditch to rampart , I should have felt that not that light , nor all the light in all the fire that burns , could waste it , like the sunbeams in its secret council - chamber , and its prisons . Before I quit this ...
... seen it in a blaze from ditch to rampart , I should have felt that not that light , nor all the light in all the fire that burns , could waste it , like the sunbeams in its secret council - chamber , and its prisons . Before I quit this ...
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... seen before ; and the disheartening dirt , discomfort , and decay ; perfectly confounded me . I fell into a dismal reverie . I am conscious of a feverish and bewildered vision of saints and virgins ' shrines at the street corners- of ...
... seen before ; and the disheartening dirt , discomfort , and decay ; perfectly confounded me . I fell into a dismal reverie . I am conscious of a feverish and bewildered vision of saints and virgins ' shrines at the street corners- of ...
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... seen skulking through the streets of Genoa , or droning away their lives in other Italian towns . Perhaps the Cappuccini , though not a learned body , are , as an order , the best friends of the people . They seem to mingle with them ...
... seen skulking through the streets of Genoa , or droning away their lives in other Italian towns . Perhaps the Cappuccini , though not a learned body , are , as an order , the best friends of the people . They seem to mingle with them ...
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... seen to dance on their holidays : the staple places of entertainment among the women , being the churches and the public walks . They are very good - tempered , obliging , and industrious . Industry has not made them clean , for their ...
... seen to dance on their holidays : the staple places of entertainment among the women , being the churches and the public walks . They are very good - tempered , obliging , and industrious . Industry has not made them clean , for their ...
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Página 385 - It was not until I came on Table Rock, and looked — Great Heaven, on what a fall of bright-green water ! — that it came upon me in its full might and majesty. Then, when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one — instant and lasting — of the tremendous spectacle, was Peace.
Página 386 - I think in every quiet season now, still do those waters roll and leap, and roar and tumble, all day long ; still are the rainbows spanning them, a hundred feet below. Still, when the sun is on them, do they shine and glow like molten gold. Still, when the day is gloomy, do they fall like snow...
Página 207 - Right away " and " Directly " were one and the same thing. So I reversed my previous answer, and sat down to dinner in ten minutes afterwards ; and a capital dinner it was. The hotel (a very excellent one) is called the Tremont House. It has more galleries, colonnades, piazzas, and passages than I can remember, or the reader would believe.
Página 311 - I sincerely believe that in all the madness of American politics, few public men would have been so earnestly, devotedly, and affectionately caressed, as this most charming writer : and I have seldom respected a public assembly more, than I did this eager throng, when I saw them turning with one mind from noisy orators and officers of state, and flocking with a generous and honest impulse round the man of quiet pursuits : proud in his promotion as reflecting back upon their country : and grateful...
Página 217 - These she felt very carefully, and soon, of course, distinguished that the crooked lines spoon, differed as much from the crooked lines key, as the spoon differed from the key in form.
Página 316 - IN the river. The river has a clayey bottom, and is full of holes, so that half a horse is constantly disappearing unexpectedly, and can't be found again for some time. " But we get past even this, and come to the road itself, which is a series of alternate swamps and gravel-pits. A tremendous place is close before us, the black driver rolls his eyes, screws his mouth up very round, and looks straight between the two leaders, as if he were saying to himself, ' We have done this before, but now I...
Página 418 - Ran away, a negro woman and two children. A few days before she went off, I burnt her with a hot iron, on the left side of her face. I tried to make the letter M.
Página 195 - she wrongs again. Before one can cry she is wrong, she seems to have started forward, and to be a creature actively running of its own accord, with broken knees and failing legs, through every variety of hole and pitfall, and stumbling constantly. Before one can so much as wonder, she takes a high leap into the air. Before she has well done that, she takes a deep dive into the water. Before she has gained the surface, she throws a somerset.
Página 432 - ... without humble reference to a censorship which, for its rampant ignorance and base dishonesty, he utterly loathes and despises in his heart; when those who most acutely feel its infamy and the reproach it casts upon the nation, and who" most denounce it to each other, dare to set their heels upon, and crush it openly, in the sight of all men: then, I wilt believe that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses.
Página 34 - The endless details of these rich Palaces : the walls of some of them, within, alive with masterpieces by Vandyke ! The great, heavy, stone balconies, one above another, and tier over tier : with here and there, one larger than the rest, towering high up — a huge marble platform : the doorless vestibules...