The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, 1880 |
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Page 233 - Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught ! Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought ; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
Page 74 - And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 251 - I have never seen men go in to cry so undisguisedly as they did at that reading yesterday afternoon. They made no attempt whatever to hide it, and certainly cried more than the women. As to the "Boots" at night, and " Mrs. Gamp " too, it was just one roar with me and them ; for they made me laugh so that sometimes I could not compose my face to go on.
Page 149 - Now isn't it an extraordinary thing — look .at the day — Friday ! I have been nearly drawing it half-a-dozen times, when the lawyers have not been ready, and here it comes round upon a Friday, as a matter of course.
Page 246 - I developed these wonderful ideas to the master carpenter at one of the theatres, and he shook his head with an intensely mournful air, and said, " Ah, sir, it's a universal observation in the profession, sir, that it was a great loss to the public when you took to writing books ! " which I thought complimentary to
Page 14 - Wolverhampton, starting at eight o'clock through a cold wet fog, and travelling, when the day had cleared up, through miles of cinder-paths, and blazing furnaces, and roaring steam-engines, and such a mass of dirt, gloom, and misery, as I never before witnessed. We got pretty well accommodated here when we arrived at half-past four, and are now going off in a postchaise to Llangollen — thirty miles — where we shall remain tonight, and where the Bangor mail will take us up tomorrow. Such are our...
Page 100 - I just put down for everybody what everybody at the St. James's Theatre wanted to say and do, and that they could say and do best, and I have been most sincerely repentant ever since.
Page 94 - There were men there, — your city aristocracy, — who made such speeches, and expressed such sentiments, as any moderately intelligent dustman would have blushed through his cindery bloom to have thought of. Sleek, slobbering, bow-paunched, over-fed, apoplectic, snorting cattle — and the auditory leaping up in their delight ! I never saw such an illustration of the power of purse, or felt so degraded and debased by its contemplation, since I have had eyes and ears. The absurdity of the thing...
Page 36 - I went up it, a mile and a half I should think. I got into the strangest places, among the wildest Neapolitans — Kitchens, washing-places, archways, stables, vineyards — was baited by dogs, answered in profoundly unintelligible Neapolitan, from behind lonely locked doors, in cracked female voices, quaking with fear ; could hear of no such Englishman or any Englishman. Byand-by I came upon a Polenta-shop in the clouds, where an old Frenchman, with an umbrella like a faded tropical leaf (it had...
Page 263 - How the densest and most uncomfortably-packed crowd will be hushed in an instant when I show my face. How the youth of colleges, and the old men of business in the town, seem equally unable to get near enough to me when they cheer me away at night. How common people and gentlefolks will stop me in the streets and say : " Mr. Dickens, will you let me touch the hand that has filled my home with so many friends ? " And if you saw the mothers, and fathers, and sisters, and brothers in mourning, who invariably...