Ah! Easily said. I am the son, Mr Meagles, of a hard father and mother. I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase... The pocket Dickens, passages chosen by A.H. Hyatt - Стр. 29авторы: Charles Dickens - 1906Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - Страниц: 360
...middle-aged gentleman gives a sad account of his parents. * Staid people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life.' This hideous sketch, however, only forms the back-ground to... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1856 - Страниц: 676
...could not be weighed, measured and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life." "Eeally though?" said Mr. Meagles, made very uncomfortable by... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1856 - Страниц: 684
...lights were extinguished before I could sound the words." "Light 'em up again!" said Mr. Mcagles-. never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain...heart everywhere — this was my childhood , if I may BO misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life." "Really though?" said Mr. Meagles,... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - Страниц: 878
...could oot be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...sympathies that were never their own, offered up as part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance... | |
| 1856 - Страниц: 880
...could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies thnt were never their own, offered up as part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1857 - Страниц: 838
...not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life." "Really though?" said Mr. Meagles, made very uncomfortable by... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1857 - Страниц: 746
...lights were extinguished before I could sound the words." " Light 'em up again ! " said Mr. Meagles. of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargnin for the security of their possessions. Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - Страниц: 368
...middle-aged gentleman gives a sad account of his parents. ' Staid people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life.' This hideous sketch, however, only forms the back-ground to... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - Страниц: 340
...middle-aged gentleman gives a sad account of his parents. ' Staid people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life.' This hideous sketch, however, only forms the background to the... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - 1858 - Страниц: 340
...middle-aged gentleman gives a sad account of his parents. ' Staid people, as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy...discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next,—nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere; this was iny... | |
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