The Centenary edition of the works of Charles Dickens, Nide 7

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Sivu 153 - Mind and matter," said the lady in the wig, " glide swift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination. To hear it, sweet it is. But then, outlaughs the stern philosopher, and saith to the Grotesque, ' What ho ! arrest for me that Agency. Go, bring it here !
Sivu 476 - em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters, Mrs Harris"'- here she kept her eye on Mr Pecksniff - '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Sivu 143 - He is a true-born child of this free hemisphere ! Verdant as the mountains of our country ; bright and flowing as our mineral Licks; unspiled by withering conventionalties as air our broad and boundless Perearers!
Sivu 169 - Nights, who issues orders for the destruction of all the Porters in Bagdad because one of that unfortunate fraternity is supposed to have misconducted himself, than to any logical, not to say Christian system of conduct, known to the world in later times. Tom had so long been used to steep the Pecksniff of his fancy in his tea, and spread him out upon his toast, and take him as a relish with his beer, that he made but a poor breakfast on the first morning after his expulsion.
Sivu 130 - A man for less," said Chollop, frowning. " I have know'd strong men obleeged to make themselves uncommon skase for less. I have know'd men Lynched for less, and beaten into punkin'sarse for less, by an enlightened people. We are the intellect and virtue of the airth, the cream Of human natur", and the flower Of moral force. Our backs is easy ris. We must be cracked-up, or they rises, and we snarls. We shows our teeth, 1 tell you, fierce. You'd better crack us up, you had ! " After the delivery of...
Sivu 171 - Yoho, past donkey-chaises, drawn aside into the ditch, and empty carts with rampant horses, whipped up at a bound upon the little watercourse, and held by struggling carters close to the fivebarred gate, until the coach had passed the narrow turning in the road.
Sivu 175 - Yoho ! See the bright moon ! High up before we know it : making the earth reflect the objects on its breast like water. Hedges, trees, low cottages, church steeples, blighted stumps and flourishing young slips, have all grown vain upon the sudden, and mean to contemplate their own fair images till morning. The poplars yonder rustle that their quivering leaves may see themselves upon the ground. Not so the oak ; trembling does not become Mm ; and he watches himself in his stout old burly steadfastness,...
Sivu 99 - No, my good sir," said Mr. Pecksniff, firmly, " no. But I have a duty to discharge which I owe to society ; and it shall be discharged, my friend, at any cost ! " Oh late-remembered, much-forgotten, mouthing, braggart duty, always owed, and seldom paid in any other coin than punishment and wrath, when will mankind begin to know thee? When will men acknowledge thee in thy neglected cradle, and thy stunted youth, and not begin their recognition in thy sinful manhood and thy desolate old age ? Oh...
Sivu 327 - Tom answered the squeeze as if it had been a speech. "John," he said, "if you'll give my sister your arm, we'll take her between us, and walk on. I have a curious circumstance to relate to you. Our meeting could not have happened better.

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