The Adventures of Oliver Twist: Also, Pictures from Italy and American Notes ...J.B. Alden, 1885 - 829 páginas |
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The Adventures of Oliver Twist: Also, Pictures from Italy, and American Notes Charles Dickens Vista de fragmentos - 1883 |
The Adventures of Oliver Twist: Also Pictures from Italy, and American Notes Charles Dickens Vista de fragmentos - 1899 |
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appearance arms Artful Dodger asked beadle beautiful Bill Sikes Brownlow Bumble chair Charley Bates Chertsey child church Claypole close coach corner cried crowd dark dear doctor Dodger door dress eyes face Fagin fire Genoa Giles girl Grimwig hand head hear heard heart heerd horses hour inquired Jacob's Island John Dawkins kind laugh light looked Losberne ma'am Mantua Master Bates Maylie mind Monks morning Nancy never night Noah o'clock old gentleman old lady Oliver Twist Oliver's once passed poor prison rejoined replied Oliver road Rose Rose Maylie round Saffron Hill seemed side Sikes smile Sowerberry stairs steamboat stopped street tell thing thought tion Toby took town turned voice waistcoat walked wall window woman words workhouse young
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Página 696 - ... all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Página 612 - It was now observed that her sense of smell was almost entirely destroyed; and, consequently, that her taste was much blunted. 'It was not until four years of age that the poor child's bodily health seemed restored, and she was able to enter upon her apprenticeship of life and the world. 'But what a situation was hers!
Página 615 - She was exercised for several weeks in this way, until her vocabulary became extensive; and then the important step was taken of teaching her how to represent the different letters by the position of her fingers, instead of the cumbrous apparatus of the board and types. She accomplished this speedily and easily, for her intellect had begun to work in aid of her teacher, and her progress was rapid.
Página 8 - The fact is, that there was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver to take upon himself the office of respiration, — a troublesome practice, but one which custom has rendered necessary to our easy existence ; and for some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next : the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.
Página 773 - ... 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, or seem to crumble away like the front of a great chalk cliff, or roll down the rock like dense white smoke.
Página 61 - ... many small shops; but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were crawling in and out at the doors, or screaming from the inside. The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main. Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women...
Página 9 - ... dress, young Oliver Twist was ! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society. But now that he was enveloped in the...
Página 52 - Meat, ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. 'You've over-fed him, ma'am. You've raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, ma'am unbecoming a person of his condition: as the board, Mrs. Sowerberry, who are practical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened.
Página iii - Whether every gentler human feeling is dead within such bosoms, or the proper chord to strike has rusted and is hard to find, I do not know; but that the fact is so, I am sure.
Página 664 - They are the city scavengers, these pigs. Ugly brutes they are ; having, for the most part, scanty, brown backs, like the lids of old horse-hair trunks : spotted with unwholesome black blotches. They have long, gaunt legs, too, and such peaked snouts, that if one of them could be persuaded to sit for his profile, nobody would recognise it for a pig's likeness.