Works of Charles Dickens, Volum 7Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879 |
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Abel appeared arms Barbara better Bevis Marks bill-sticking bills Billy Stevens bore brother Butcher called Carpet Bag Charley Walters Chartist child Chuckster Clocker cried Brass dead dear Dick Dodo door dwarf eyes face fellows fire Garland gone hand head hear heard heart honorable friend Inspector Field Kit's lady legs light lived look Madame Roland Marchioness matter mean mind Miss Brass Miss Sally morning mother never night noble savage Old Cheeseman Pavilionstone pine-apples Poissy poor pound present pretty Prodgit Quilp replied returned Richard Swiveller round says ship single gentleman sleep small servant smile stood stopped street sure tell there's thing thought Tom Scott took town turned Vestry voice walk watering-place Waterloo Waterloo Road William Butcher window woman wonder word young
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Side 183 - ... That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Side 183 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Side 47 - Drink of this cup, you'll find there's a spell in its every drop 'gainst the ills of mortality. Talk of the cordial that sparkled for Helen ! Her cup was a fiction, but this is reality (Barclay and Co.'s). If they ever send it in a flat state, complain to the Governor. Yours, RS" " RS ! " said Kit, after some consideration.
Side 138 - When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.
Side 57 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Side 1 - Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
Side 171 - But while she was still very young, oh ! very, very young, the sister drooped, and came to be so weak that she could no longer stand in the window at night ; and then the child looked sadly out by himself, and when he saw the star, turned round and said to the patient pale face on the bed, "I see the star!
Side 133 - It was the hand she had stretched out to him with her last smile - the hand that had led him on through all their wanderings. Ever and anon he pressed it to his lips; then hugged it to his breast again, murmuring that it was warmer now; and as he said it he looked, in agony, to those who stood around, as if imploring them to help her. She was dead, and past all help, or need of it. The ancient rooms she had seemed to fill with life, even while her own was waning fast - the garden she had tended -...
Side 174 - I can bear the parting from her, GOD be praised! " And the star was shining. Thus the child came to be an old man, and his once smooth face was wrinkled, and his steps were slow and feeble, and his back was bent. And one night as he lay upon his bed, his children standing round, he cried, as he had cried so long ago: "I see the star!" They whispered one another,
Side 136 - And now the bell — the bell she had so often heard by night and day, and listened to with solemn pleasure almost as a living voice — rung its remorseless toll for her, so young, so beautiful, so good. Decrepit age, and vigorous life, and blooming youth, and helpless infancy, poured forth — on crutches, in the pride of strength and health, in the full blush of promise, in the mere dawn of life — to gather round her tomb.