The Glory and the Shame of England, المجلد 2Bentley, 1841 |
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... society as to prevent him from re- ceiving me with genuine kindness . I sent in my card , after writing on it with a pencil , " An American would be greatly obliged if he could see Mr. Dickens . " In a moment or two the servant returned ...
... society as to prevent him from re- ceiving me with genuine kindness . I sent in my card , after writing on it with a pencil , " An American would be greatly obliged if he could see Mr. Dickens . " In a moment or two the servant returned ...
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... society casts away . He catches up the dross , and makes it shine like pure gold . Nay , he is a sort of moral alchymist , that can convert the worthless into the precious , and show the uses and the significancy of everything that ...
... society casts away . He catches up the dross , and makes it shine like pure gold . Nay , he is a sort of moral alchymist , that can convert the worthless into the precious , and show the uses and the significancy of everything that ...
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... society , and make his writings relished equally by the peer , and the peasant ; the little milliner in her back parlour , and the great duchess in her boudoir . Scenes that the great cannot even imagine , he carries straight into their ...
... society , and make his writings relished equally by the peer , and the peasant ; the little milliner in her back parlour , and the great duchess in her boudoir . Scenes that the great cannot even imagine , he carries straight into their ...
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... society ; to be the am- bassador from poverty to pride , or the media- tor between the abjectness of hopeless penury and the superb magnificence of affluent aris- tocracy . This , we say , is a mighty privilege , and this great writer ...
... society ; to be the am- bassador from poverty to pride , or the media- tor between the abjectness of hopeless penury and the superb magnificence of affluent aris- tocracy . This , we say , is a mighty privilege , and this great writer ...
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... society as among the brightest spots of my life in Eng- land . I can remember no author I read with so much enthusiasm in early years ; no one who exerted so powerful an influence upon my taste and character . How many long summer days ...
... society as among the brightest spots of my life in Eng- land . I can remember no author I read with so much enthusiasm in early years ; no one who exerted so powerful an influence upon my taste and character . How many long summer days ...
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