 I look for protection, for assistance, for comfort, and for consolation; in single gentlemen I shall perpetually see something to remind me of what Mr. Bardell was when he first won my young and untried affections; to a single gentleman, then, shall my...  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - Page 79by Charles Dickens - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Robert Ford - 1892 - 144 pages
...and untried affections; to a single gentleman shall my lodgings be let.' Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our imperfect nature, gentlemen), the desolate widow dried her tears, furnished her first floor, caught her innocent boy to her maternal... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...untried affections ; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let.' Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our...up in her parlour-window. Did it remain there long r No. The serpent was on the watch, the train was laid, the mine was preparing, the sapper and miner... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 712 pages
...and untried affections ; to a single gentleman shall my lodgings be let.' Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our imperfect nature, gentlemen), the desolate widow dried her tears, furnished her first floor, caught her innocent boy to her maternal... | |
 | William Landon Felter - Readers - 1900 - 244 pages
...untried affections ; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let.' Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse, (among the best impulses of...to her maternal bosom, and put the bill up in her parlor-window. Did it remain there long ? No. The serpent was on the watch, the train was laid, the... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...untried affections; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let.' Actuated by this yo beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our...to her maternal bosom, and put the bill up in her parlour window. Did it remain there long? No. The serpent was on the watch— the train was laid —... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...untried affections ; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let. " Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our...to her maternal bosom, and put the bill up in her parlor window. Did it remain there long? No. The serpent was on the watch, the train was laid, the... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...untried affections ; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let." Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our...to her maternal bosom, and put the bill up in her parlor window. Did it remain there long? No. The serpent was on the watch, the train was laid, the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1902 - 140 pages
...untried affections; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let. Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our...to her maternal bosom, and put the bill up in her parlour window. Did it remain there long ? No. The serpent was on the watch, the train was laid, the... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Elocution - 1906 - 576 pages
...untried affections; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let." Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our...to her maternal bosom, and put the bill up in her parlor-window. Did it remain there long ? No! The serpent was on the watch, the train was laid, the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1907 - 258 pages
...and untried affections ; to a single gentleman shall my lodgings be let.' Actuated by this beautiful and touching impulse (among the best impulses of our imperfect nature, gentlemen), the desolate widow dried her tears, furnished her first floor, caught her innocent boy to her maternal... | |
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