The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery: (which He Never Meant to be Published on Any Account.), Volume 1Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun., 1849 - 322 páginas |
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The Personal History, Adventures, Experience & Observation of David ... Charles Dickens Visualização de excertos - 1950 |
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Página 321 - ... the ship, striving hard and valiantly. The distance was nothing ; but the power of the sea and wind made the strife deadly. At length he neared the wreck. He was so near, that, with one more of his vigorous strokes, he would be clinging to it, when a high, green, vast hillside of water, moving on shoreward from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound, and the ship was gone...
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Página 78 - I do mine, in going on here, from page to page, had need to have been a good man indeed, if he would be spared the sharp consciousness of many talents neglected, many opportunities wasted, many erratic and perverted feelings constantly at war within his breast, and defeating him. I do not hold one natural gift, I dare say, that I have not abused. My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well ; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have...
Página 304 - I am the umblest person going,' said Uriah Heep, modestly; 'let the other be where he may. My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for. My father's former calling was umble. He was a sexton.
Página 311 - Sweeping gusts of rain came up before this storm like showers of steel ; and at those times, when there was any shelter of trees or lee walls to be got, we were fain to stop, in a sheer impossibility of continuing the struggle.
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Página 206 - From Monday morning until Saturday night, I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from any one, that I can call to mind , as I hope to go to heaven ! I was so young and childish , and so little qualified — how could I be otherwise?
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