David Copperfield ...

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Hurd and Houghton, 1870

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Sivu 49 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Sivu 221 - The deep remembrance of the sense I had of being utterly neglected and hopeless; of the shame I felt in my position ; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that, day by day, what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, was passing away from me, never to be brought back any more; cannot be written.
Sivu 9 - WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
Sivu 166 - And now he made for the wreck, rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the rugged foam, borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship, striving hard and valiantly. The distance was nothing, but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length he neared the wreck. He was so near, that with one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it, — when, a high, green, vast hillside of water, moving on shoreward, from beyond the ship, he seemed to...
Sivu 163 - As he spoke, there was another great cry of pity from the beach ; four men arose with the wreck out of the deep, clinging to the rigging of the remaining mast ; uppermost, the active figure with the curling hair. There was a bell on board ; and as the ship rolled and dashed, like a...
Sivu 230 - I know that I have lounged about the streets, insufficiently and unsatisfactorily fed. I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a little vagabond.
Sivu 249 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Sivu 230 - But I kept my own counsel, and I did my work. I knew from the first, that if I could not do my work as well as any of the rest, I could not hold myself above slight and contempt.
Sivu 297 - It's a bad job," he said, when I had done ; " but the sun sets every day, and people die every minute, and we mustn't be scared by the common lot. If we failed to hold our own, because that equal foot at all men's doors was heard knocking somewhere, every object in this world would slip from us. No ! Ride on ! Roughshod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on ! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race ! " " And win what race 1 " said I. " The race that one has started in,
Sivu 81 - Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii, — and did me no harm ; for whatever harm was in, some of them was not there for me; / knew nothing of it. It is astonishing to me now, how I found time, in the midst of my porings and blunderings over heavier themes, to read those books as I did. It is curious to me...

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