The Writings of Charles Dickens: With Critical and Bibliographical Introductions and Notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and Others; Illustrated with Steel Portraits and Engravings from the Original Designs by Browne, Cruikshank, Leech, and Others, Volume 11Houghton, Mifflin, 1894 |
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Page 551 - Then when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one — instant and lasting — of the tremendous spectacle, was — Peace, Peace of Mind : Tranquillity : Calm recollections of the dead : Great Thoughts of Eternal Rest and Happiness : nothing of Gloom or Terror.
Page 323 - em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters. Mrs. Harris:'" here she kept her eye on Mr. Pecksniff: '"be they gents or be they ladies, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or whether I will, but leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged.
Page 55 - He did things with his hat, which nothing but an unlimited knowledge of horses and the wildest freedom of the road, could ever have made him perfect in. Valuable little parcels were brought to him with particular instructions, and he pitched them into his hat, and stuck it on again; as if the laws of gravity did not admit of such an event as its being knocked off or blown off, and nothing like an accident could befall it. The guard, too! Seventy breezy miles a day were 'written in his very whiskers.
Page 418 - It is pleasant to find that many of its Tales are of the Mills and of those who work in them ; that they inculcate habits of self-denial and contentment, and teach good doctrines of enlarged benevolence. A strong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome village air; and though a circulating library is a...
Page 56 - Tom did; the bugle was in as high spirits as the greys ; the coachman chimed in sometimes with his voice; the wheels hummed cheerfully in unison; the brass work on the harness was an orchestra of little bells; and thus, as they went clinking, jingling, rattling smoothly on, the whole concern, from the buckles of the leaders' coupling-reins, to the handle of the hind-boot, was one great instrument of music.
Page 56 - ... coupling-reins to the handle of the hind boot, was one great instrument of music. Yoho! past hedges, gates, and trees; past cottages and bams, and people going home from work. Yoho! past donkeychaises, drawn aside into the ditch, and empty carts with rampant horses, whipped up at a bound upon the little watercourse, and held by struggling carters close to the five-barred gate, until the coach had passed the narrow turning in the road. Yoho ! by churches dropped down by themselves in quiet nooks,...
Page 470 - All Men are created Equal; and are endowed by their Creator with the Inalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!
Page 380 - ... within her delicate frame, and but one outward sense — the sense of touch. There she was before me; built up, as it were, in a marble cell, impervious to any ray of light or particle of sound; with her poor white hand peeping through a chink in the wall, beckoning to some good man for help...
Page 569 - I so abhor, and from my soul detest that bad spirit, no matter by what class or sect it may be entertained , which would strip life of its healthful graces, rob youth of its innocent pleasures, pluck from maturity and age their pleasant ornaments, and make existence but a narrow path towards the grave : that odious spirit which , if it could have had full scope and sway upon the earth, must have blasted and made barren the imaginations of the greatest men , and left them , in their power of raising...
Page 30 - He is a true-born child of this free hemisphere ! Verdant as the mountains of our country ; bright and flowing as our mineral Licks; unspiled by withering conventionalities as air our broad and boundless Perearers ! Rough he may be. So air our Barrs. Wild he may be. So air our Buffalers. But he is a child of Natur1, and a child of Freedom ; and his boastful answer to the Despot and the Tyrant is, that his bright home is in the Settin Sun.