 He was a most exemplary man: fuller of virtuous precept than a copy-book. Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there: but these were his enemies; the shadows cast by his brightness; that...  Works - Sivu 14tekijä(t) Charles Dickens - 1844Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Charles Dickens - 2000 - 868 sivua
...sentiments. 'In this particular he was like the girl in the fairy-tale, except that if they were not actual diamonds which fell from his lips, they were...the very brightest paste, and shone prodigiously.' Similar paste diamonds drop freely from American lips. When Martin and Mark Tapley flee from an America... | |
 | Norman Page - 1999 - 456 sivua
...ceases to be laughable and yet never ceases to be loathsome," is one of D1ckens's greatest creations. "He was a most exemplary man : fuller of virtuous...precept than a copybook. Some people likened him to a direction post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there." We know his daughters... | |
 | John Bowen - 2003 - 244 sivua
...old Martin writing out his will and then burning it to cinders, without a trace. Pecksniff is like 'a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there' (11). Mark Tapley identifies himself with language itself: ' "A Werb is a word as signifies to be,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2006 - 482 sivua
...his inside. In this particular he was like the girl in the fairy tale, except that if they were not actual diamonds which fell from his lips, they were...most exemplary man; fuller of virtuous precept than a copy book. Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place,... | |
 | 1905 - 892 sivua
...display becoming humility. Like a certain architect and land surveyor of noble sentiments and speecfi, "he was a most exemplary man, fuller of virtuous precept than a copy book ; some people likened him to a direction post, which is always telling the way to a place,... | |
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