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
gas last
She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters!
flood miss rose straight table tears
Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a Sedan chair.
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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.
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.
excess fall mere state
Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
excess fall mere mind state
Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.
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.
On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip; such is Life!
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One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave.
lead night precious time
Lead on! said Scrooge. ""Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!
affection cheerful friends-or-friendship great heaven last merry
Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
stand
She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.
bless daily love proper
O let us love our occupations,/ Bless the squire and his relations,/ Live upon our daily rations,/ And always know our proper stations.