On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Indeed, there was a frankness in his face, an honesty, and an undisguised show of his pride in her, and his love… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are!… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mrs. Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Mrs. Wilfer and Miss… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
