 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1868 - 604 pages
...walked, was * triumph of fact ; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind heiselt Let us strike the key-note, Coketown, before pursuing...brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smohe and ashes had allowed it ; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 354 pages
...in your face." " You may cut the piece out with your penknife if yoĞ like, Tom. I wouldn't cry! " CHAPTER V. THE KEY-NOTE. COKETOWN, to which Messrs....face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chin.neys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever and ever, and never... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 868 pages
...cut the piece out with your penknife if you like, Tom. I wouldn't cry 1 " CHAPTER V. THE KEY-NOTE. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red i£ the smoke and ashes had allowed it ; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black... | |
 | Louis Lubovius - German language - 1898 - 208 pages
...kreuzbrav : thoroughly honest. PROGRESSIVE GERMAN COMPOSITION. COKETOWN. Coketown was a town of red brick,1 or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes 2 had allowed it ; but as matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black, like the painted... | |
 | Leon Carroll Marshall, Leverett Samuel Lyon - Economics - 1921 - 524 pages
...town, gives a picture of what may result from intense local specialization under certain conditions. "It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would...it was a town of unnatural red and black like the {minted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1926 - 1078 pages
...a town of red brick, or of J>rick_JJiai:.wjauitl-Jia.ve been red if the smoke and ashes had^allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural...black like the painted face of a savage. It was a tojEn^L machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves... | |
 | Alexander John Philip, W. Laurence Gadd - 1928 - 428 pages
...greasy and fatty surface like cold broth. COKE. Caleb, of Wolverhampton. MP, RS COKETOWN. #.r.,s. iv. A town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it. A town of machinery and tall chimneys. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...rhetorical emphasis. Coketown was a 'triumph of fact'; you saw nothing in it 'but what was severely workfuT. It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would...unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. In its human as in its physical landscape it was, in this view, uniform: It contained several large... | |
 | Robert Druce - American literature - 1987 - 230 pages
...teach later generations to see and to say. Leiden S. Betsky-Zweig MAN, THE MACHINE, AND A RADIANT FOOL It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would...red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as mailers stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a... | |
 | Renata Ruth Mautner Wasserman - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 306 pages
...and for Flaubert connotes Homais's prejudices. In Hard Times Charles Dickens describes Coketown as "a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage" (p. 65); the image of natural man unnaturally painted simultaneously brings up the absence and the... | |
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It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. 
