with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!'... The Twentieth Century - Page 7671903Full view - About this book
| 1844 - 872 pages
...apartments with a gentle, manly solemnity. "Those darling byegone times, Mi. Carker," DOMBEY AND SON. «aid Cleopatra, " with their delicious fortresses, and...and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque ussaults and sieges, and everything that makes lite truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1846 - 550 pages
...through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. " Those darling bygone times, Mr. Carker," said Cleopatra, " with their delicious fortresses, and...truly charming ! How dreadfully we have degenerated !" . "Yes, we have fallen off deplorably," said Mr. Carker. The peculiarity of their conversation was,... | |
| Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1848 - 564 pages
...through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. " Those darling bygone times, Mr. Carker," said Cleopatra, " with their delicious fortresses, and...truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!" " Yes, we have fallen off deplorably," said Mr. Carker. The peculiarity of their conversation was,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1848 - 732 pages
...escort Edith : which he did : stalking before them through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons,...picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes Ufe truly charming ! How dreadfully we have degenerated ! " " Yes, we have fallen off deplorably,"... | |
| Charles Dickens - Businessmen - 1848 - 752 pages
...which he did : stalking before them thrauirh tha noirt"Those darling byegone times, Mr. Carker," said Cleopatra, " with their delicious fortresses, and...and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque cssaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated... | |
| Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1848 - 730 pages
...escort Edith : which he did : stalking before them through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons,...places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, .-nul their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming ! How dreadfully... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1852 - 572 pages
...through the apartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. " Those darling bygone times, Mr. Carker,'' said Cleopatra, " with their delicious fortresses, and...truly charming ! How dreadfully we have degenerated !" " Yes, we have fallen off deplorably," said Mr. Carker. The peculiarity of their conversation was,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1867 - 576 pages
...through the spartments with a gentlemanly solemnity. "Those darling byegone times, Mr. Carker," said Cleopatra, "with their delicious fortresses, and their...truly charming ! How dreadfully we have degenerated ! " " Yes, we have fallen off deplorably," said Mr. Carker. The peculiarity of their conversation was,... | |
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