A Short Life of Charles Dickens: With Selections from His LettersD. Appleton, 1882 - 260 Seiten |
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Seite 58 - Club," the members of which were to go out shooting, fishing, and so forth, and getting themselves into difficulties through their want of dexterity, would be the best means of introducing these.
Seite 23 - It is wonderful to me how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age. It is wonderful to me, that, even after my descent into the poor little drudge I had been since we came to London, no one had compassion enough on me — a child of singular abilities, quick, eager, delicate, and soon hurt, bodily or mentally...
Seite 43 - The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different ; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles ; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies...
Seite 9 - My father had left a small collection of books in a little room up-stairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.
Seite 38 - I do not write resentfully or angrily: for I know how all these things have worked together to make me what I am : but I never afterwards forgot, I never shall forget, I never can forget, that my mother was warm for my being sent back.
Seite 26 - I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or a fourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of bread and cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-house opposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion and something else that I have forgotten.
Seite 121 - In a bay-window in a one-pair sits, from nine o'clock to one, a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckcloth, who writes and grins as if he thought he were very funny indeed. His name is Boz.
Seite 64 - What a face is his to meet in a drawing-room !" wrote Leigh Hunt to me, the morning after I made them known to each other. " It has the life and soul in it of fifty human beings.
Seite 31 - A bed and bedding were sent over for me, and made up on the floor. The little window had a pleasant prospect of a timberyard; and when I took possession of my new abode I thought it was a Paradise.
Seite 47 - I went to some theatre every night, with a very few exceptions, for at least three years : really studying the bills first, and going to where there was the best acting : and always to see Mathews whenever he played. I practised immensely (even such things as walking in and out, and sitting down in a chair) : often four, five, six hours a day : shut up in my own room, or walking about in the fields. I prescribed to myself, too, a sort of Hamiltonian system for learning parts; and learnt a great number.