Charles Dickens: Frasi in inglese

Charles Dickens era scrittore, giornalista e reporter di viaggio britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“Who will wonder that Barbara had a headache, or that Barbara's mother was disposed to be cross, or that she slightly underrated Astley's, and thought the clown was older than they had taken him to be last night? Kit was not surprised to hear her say so--not he. He had already had a misgiving that the inconstant actors in that dazzling vision had been doing the same thing the night before last, and would do it again that night, and the next, and for weeks and months to come, though he would not be there. Such is the difference between yesterday and today. We are all going to the play, or coming home from it.”

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Charles Dickens libro The Old Curiosity Shop

Origine: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 40

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”

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Charles Dickens libro Great Expectations

Origine: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 59

“Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.”

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Charles Dickens libro Casa Desolata

Origine: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19

““She means well,” said Mr Jarndyce, hastily. “The wind’s in the east.” “It was in the north, sir, as we came down,” observed Richard. “My dear Rick,” said Mr Jarndyce, poking the fire, “I’ll take an oath it’s either in the east, or going to be. I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.””

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Charles Dickens libro Casa Desolata

Origine: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 6

“Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.”

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Charles Dickens libro Il nostro comune amico

Bk. I, Ch. 5
Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865)

“In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.”

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Charles Dickens libro The Old Curiosity Shop

Origine: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 33

“Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.”

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Charles Dickens libro The Old Curiosity Shop

Origine: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 12

“What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.”

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Charles Dickens libro Casa Desolata

Origine: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19

“Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.”

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Charles Dickens libro Casa Desolata

Origine: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 54, Mr. Bucket to Mademoiselle Hortense

“The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.”

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Charles Dickens libro Casa Desolata

Origine: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 39

“It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.”

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Charles Dickens

About having a book
Letter to Mrs. Richard Watson (7 December 1857)

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”

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Charles Dickens libro Great Expectations

Origine: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 2

“(Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a "ruler of men". His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.”

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All the year round, Vol.15 (1876), p. 281

“That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.”

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Charles Dickens libro The Old Curiosity Shop

Origine: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 40

“You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!… O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!”

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Charles Dickens libro Casa Desolata

Origine: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 19

“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”

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Hunted Down http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/hntdn10.txt (1859)

“Minerva House … was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”

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Charles Dickens libro Sketches by Boz

Tales, Ch. 3 : Sentiment
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837)

“She's the ornament of her sex.”

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Charles Dickens libro The Old Curiosity Shop

Origine: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 5

“in a private letter to letter to Emile de la Rue on 23 October 1857”

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You know faces, when they are not brown; you know common experiences when they are not under turbans; Look at the dogs - low, treacherous, merderous, tigerous villians
I wish I were Commander in Chief over there ! I would address that Oriental character which must be powerfully spoken to, in something like the following placard, which should be vigorously translated into all native dialects, “I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late abominable atrocities"

“Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.”

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Charles Dickens libro The Old Curiosity Shop

Origine: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 34