Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 February 1812
careful example kept public
Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.
saying soul
Look here. Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know.
immense pass turning
I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.
fine point
Not to put too fine a point upon it.
acquired arm behind clearing difficult existence flourish mr peculiar settled sweeping whatever
Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.
forgive lambs mrs nor spoke words worms
But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget.
acquired ages finishing girls knowledge nineteen thirteen twenty
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.
declines drops friend poetry
Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
call governor italians prove
If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed
acquired ages finishing girls house knowledge nineteen thirteen twenty
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.
excess fall mere mind state
Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
apart believe belonging below bless bound calendar christmas consent creatures due god gold good hearts men name open people pleasant race round sacred scrap seem silver sure though time women
But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'
bosom capital hang jewels repose
It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.
burden useless
No one is useless in this world, retorted the Secretary, ""who lightens the burden of it for any one else.