A Tale of Two CitiesLongmans, Green, 1910 - 388 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Alexandre Manette answer asked Barsad breast brother brother Solomon Carlyle carriage Charles Darnay CHARLES DICKENS château child citizen coach Conciergerie corner court-yard cried Cruncher dark daughter dead dear death Defarge's Dickens Doctor Manette door dreadful English Evrémonde eyes face father France French gentleman Guillotine hair hand head heart honour hope horses hour husband Jacques Three knew knitting light live looked Lorry Lorry's Lucie Lucie Manette Madame Defarge manner mender of roads mind Miss Manette Miss Pross Monseigneur Monsieur Defarge Monsieur the Marquis never night Old Bailey Paris passed poor prisoner returned Saint Antoine seen shadow Soho stone stood stopped streets Stryver Sydney Carton tell Tellson's Temple Bar things thought took tumbrils turned voice walked wife window wine wine-shop woman words Young Jerry
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Página 376 - I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Página 381 - It having been argued that this was an improvement.—" No, Sir," said he, eagerly, " it is not an improvement: they object, that the old method drew together a number of spectators. Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession; the criminal was supported by it. Why is all this to be swept away ?
Página 3 - There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England ; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.
Página xix - I set myself the little task of making a picturesque story, rising in every chapter, with characters true to nature, but whom the story should express more than they should express themselves by dialogue.
Página ix - Never to put one hand to anything, on which I could throw my whole self; and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was ; I find, now, to have been my golden rules.
Página 5 - In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and * 'protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night ; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers...
Página xi - 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?
Página 3 - IT was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we Were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was 'so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest...
Página vii - From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii...