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
bless bob christmas family god last merry tiny
Then Bob proposed: 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
cause cheer comfort displaced idol matters time tried
It matters little, she said, softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.
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I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects.
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There is no limitation, there is positively no limitation' - opening his eyes wide, and standing on tiptoe - 'in point of expense! I have orders, sir, to put on my whole establishment of mutes; and mutes come very dear, Mr Pecksniff; not to mention t
friend unless
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
affection
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other.
affection hypocrisy shining
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
action black devoted fierce hatred looked standing wild
With a fierce action of her hand, as if she sprinkled hatred on the ground, and with it devoted those who were standing there to destruction, she looked up once at the black sky, and strode out into the wild night.
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Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards.
charity learn matter worth
Vether it's worth goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o' taste.
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We cannot have single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra for it . . .
meant men
What is meant by a "knowledge of the world" is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men
inspirational believe eye
"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."
inspirational eye shining
... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.