The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The history of Pendennis

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1884
 

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第 482 頁 - I do not like thee, Dr Fell. The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr Fell.
第 317 頁 - I see the truth in that man, as I do in his brother, whose logic drives him to quite a different conclusion, and who, after having passed a life in vain endeavours to reconcile an irreconcilable book, flings it at last down in despair, and declares, with tearful eyes, and hands up to heaven, his revolt and recantation.
第 483 頁 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.
第 32 頁 - That's the way of poets," said Warrington. " They fall in love, jilt, or are jilted : they suffer and they cry out that they suffer more than any other mortals : and when they have experienced feelings enough they note them down in a book, and take the book to market. All poets are humbugs, all literary men are humbugs ; directly a man begins to sell his feelings for money he's a humbug. If a poet gets a pain in his side from too good a dinner, he bellows Ai, Ai, louder than Prometheus." "I suppose...
第 316 頁 - ... of uttering downright falsehoods in arguing questions or abusing opponents, which he would die or starve rather than use. It was not in our friend's nature to be able to utter certain, lies ; nor was he strong enough to protest against others, except with a polite sneer ; his maxim being, that he owed obedience to all Acts of Parliament, as long as they were not repealed.

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