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... scene . How well did he describe the bustle of delightful preparation , the world of pains by each one of the family , to give due pomp to the expected feast . He fairly rollicked in the description of the goose and the pudding ...
... scene . How well did he describe the bustle of delightful preparation , the world of pains by each one of the family , to give due pomp to the expected feast . He fairly rollicked in the description of the goose and the pudding ...
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... scenes which almost lifted one off from his feet by their exuberant gaiety . Thus the story - teller enters into a game of blind man's buff , like a romping boy . He enters into the very soul of Topper , and into his body too , when ...
... scenes which almost lifted one off from his feet by their exuberant gaiety . Thus the story - teller enters into a game of blind man's buff , like a romping boy . He enters into the very soul of Topper , and into his body too , when ...
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... scene . These were the passages which pleased us most -- so touching were they , and so fitly spoken , with a power beyond the reach of art , the power of deep , genuine feeling . No one could doubt the heart of the man that heard him ...
... scene . These were the passages which pleased us most -- so touching were they , and so fitly spoken , with a power beyond the reach of art , the power of deep , genuine feeling . No one could doubt the heart of the man that heard him ...
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... scene of the death of Paul's mother , when poor little Florence , who has never known what it was to be loved but by her , comes into the room and throws herself upon her dying mother's breast . Dickens ' voice had a tone of solemnity ...
... scene of the death of Paul's mother , when poor little Florence , who has never known what it was to be loved but by her , comes into the room and throws herself upon her dying mother's breast . Dickens ' voice had a tone of solemnity ...
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... scene opens the eyes of a stranger to a new phase of English character . He finds , too , that when he is once admitted within that sacred pale , no reception could be more cordial . In fact , the very reserve which isolates an ...
... scene opens the eyes of a stranger to a new phase of English character . He finds , too , that when he is once admitted within that sacred pale , no reception could be more cordial . In fact , the very reserve which isolates an ...
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Page 209 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the •wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Page 37 - and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
Page 31 - MARLEY was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Page 38 - God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all. He sat very close to his father's side, upon his little stool. Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him. "Spirit," said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, "tell me if Tiny Tim will live.
Page 82 - ... or feels about it, putting forth no claim, having no beauty, nor desirableness, pride nor grace; yet neither asking for pity; not, as ruins are, useless and piteous, feebly or fondly garrulous of better days; but useful still, going through its own daily work—as some old fisherman beaten grey by storm, yet drawing his daily nets...
Page 36 - So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his thread-bare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame! "Why, where's our Martha?" cried Bob Cratchit looking round "Not coming,
Page 31 - Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
Page 156 - OF Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown, And her arms along the deep proudly shone; By each gun the lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on.
Page 171 - How wonderful is Death, Death and his brother Sleep ! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ! The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world: Yet both so passing wonderful...
Page 31 - No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often "came down " handsomely, and Scrooge never did.