The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four [i.e. Thirty-eight] Volumes, Volum 8,Edició 1C. Scribner's Sons, 1868 |
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Pàgina 271 - ... about the candle, and wait patiently for day. His only trouble was, the swift and rapid river. He felt forced, sometimes, to try to stop it, — to stem it with his childish hands, or choke its way with sand, — and when he saw it coming on, resistless, he cried out...
Pàgina 2 - His father's name, Mrs. Dombey, and his grandfather's ! I wish his grandfather were alive this day !" And again he said " Dom-bey and Son," in exactly the same tone as before. Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships ; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather ; winds blew for or against their enterprises ; stars and planets ....
Pàgina 276 - He put his hands together, as he had been used to do at his prayers. He did not remove his arms to do it; but they saw him fold them so, behind her neck.
Pàgina 325 - Hear him!' cried the Captain. 'Good morality! Wal'r, my lad. Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade on it. Overhaul the - Well...
Pàgina 267 - There were railway patterns in its drapers' shops, and railway journals in the windows of its newsmen. There were railway hotels, coffee-houses, lodging-houses, boarding-houses; railway plans, maps, views, wrappers, bottles, sandwich-boxes, and time-tables ; railway hackney-coach and cabstands; railway omnibuses, railway streets and buildings, railway hangers-on and parasites, and flatterers out of all calculation. There was even railway time observed in clocks, as if the sun itself had given in....
Pàgina 35 - Notwithstanding Mr. Toodle's great reliance on Polly, she was perhaps in point of artificial accomplishments very little his superior. But she was a good plain sample of a nature that is ever, in the mass, better, truer, higher, nobler, quicker to feel, and much more constant to retain, all tenderness and pity, self-denial and devotion, than the nature of men.
Pàgina 363 - ... at all times, but feebler than common in the rich sunshine, and more like the coat of a sandy tortoise-shell cat ; with long nails, nicely pared and sharpened ; with a natural antipathy to any speck of dirt, which made him pause sometimes and watch the falling motes of dust, and rub them oft' his smooth white hand or glossy linen : Mr.
Pàgina 174 - Latin vegetable was got off the driest twigs of boys, under the frostiest circumstances. Nature was of no consequence at all. No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, Doctor Blimber made him bear to pattern, somehow or other.
Pàgina 257 - Wal'r, my boy," replied the captain, " in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, ' May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him...
Pàgina 273 - The train of thought suggested to him to inquire if he had ever seen his mother : for he could not remember whether they had told him yes or no, the river running very fast, and confusing his mind. " Floy, did I ever see mamma ?