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... and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...f whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highl... ...ind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for ... ... I grieve to add, of many workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrow... ..., that Tom cast down his eyes involuntarily, and felt as if he himself had committed some horrible deed and heinous breach of Mr Pecksniff’s confidenc... ...e mysteri- ously, too, of splendid women, and was suspected of having once committed himself with a Countess. Mr Gander was of a witty turn being inde... ...ng case; and the interesting Arkansas dooel with Bowie knives; and all the Political, Commercial, and Fashionable News. Here they are! Here they are! ... ...were on missions from neighbouring States; one on monetary affairs, one on political, one on sectarian. Among the ladies, there were Mrs Pawkins, who ... ... wall; which had very much the appearance of two curates who had committed suicide by hanging themselves. Remembering that he had seen in the first cu... ... Miss Pecksniff, ‘what my feelings would have been, if I had goaded him to suicide, and it had got into the papers!’ Ruth observed that she would have...

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...nd looked, without any expression of countenance whatever, at some friends who had come on board with us, and who were crushing their faces into all m... ...ich has since gratified me so much, but I observed that one of our friends who had made the arrangements for our voyage, turned pale on entering, re... ...Boylston school, and is an asylum for neglected and indigent boys who have committed no crime, but who in the ordinary course of things would very soo... ...e magistrate on a charge of theft, was a boy. This lad, in stead of being committed to a common jail, would be sent to the asylum at South Boston, an... ...rong feeling for the beauties of nature, as displayed in the solitudes the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome villag... ...s might do it.’ ‘Does that ever do it?’ ‘Why yes, that’ll do it sometimes. Political friends’ll do it sometimes. It’s pretty often done, one way or an... ...s place The Tombs?’ ‘Well, it’s the cant name.’ ‘I know it is. Why?’ ‘Some suicides happened here, when it was first built. I expect it come about fro... ...ry? I saw in them, the wheels that move the meanest perversion of virtuous Political Machinery that the worst tools ever wrought. Despicable trickery ... ...en in his time, and did his utmost to correct it. I cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of various forms of dissent i...

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Excerpt: The Uncommercial Traveler by Charles Dickens.

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...raw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoceros. Had I not given a lift of fourteen miles to the Coast-g... ...and weeks, in the performance of the forlornest offices that Man can render to his kind; of his having most tenderly and thoroughly devoted himself to... ...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...ing and sucking a horizontal iron bar at the top of the locks. Inspira- tion suggested to me that Mr. Baker was the acting coroner of that neighbourho... ...enheim when he tore the breast of his (the warrior’s) little coat open, and shook all his ten fingers in his face, as if they were ten thousand. When ... ...of the old-fashioned houses in the High-street as they shake the town. I have not the honour of Pickford’s acquaintance, but I felt that he had done m... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ...nder-like, I stand on the cold hearth, and say in the solitude, ‘Here I watched Bore A 1, with voice always mysteriously low and head always mysteriou... ..., whose over-fraught heart is heaving as if it would burst from his breast, and whose tears are wet upon the dress I wear, was a galley-slave in the N...

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Excerpt: Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens.

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... burst at one instant from every quarter of the ship. ‘Many of the seamen, who had been remarkably inattentive and remiss in their duty during great p... ...and other necessary labours to the officers of the ship, and the soldiers, who had made uncommon exertions. Roused by a sense of their danger, the sam... ...any other. He always belongs to a Corresponding Society of Begging Letter Writers. Any one who will, may ascertain this fact. Give money to day in re... ... never write these letters. Nothing could be more unlike their habits. The writers are public robbers; and we who support them are parties to their de... ...ny. They spoke little to each other, and looked as if they might have been politically discon tented if they had had vitality enough. Once, we overhe... ...void us!’ We have never overheard at street corners such lunatic scraps of political and social discussion as among these dear countrymen of ours. The... ...unately took to drinking, made away with every thing, and seventeen times committed to Birmingham Jail before happy release in every point of view), ... ...ad the Butcher and the Police officer, both in one. Out of seven prisoners committed for trial, five were found guilty, and some of ‘em were transport... ... posts and iron rings, hiding strange things in its mud, running away with suicides and accidentally drowned bodies faster than midnight funeral shoul...

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Excerpt: Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens.

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...Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from ... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...ion of their meaning. When I hint a dislike of nunner ies for young girls who abjure the world before they have ever proved or known it; or doubt the... ..., 5 Charles Dickens to compare impressions with some among the multitudes who will hereafter visit the scenes described with interest and delight. An... ... portion of the great scheme of Retribution, that the cruel deed should be committed in this place! That a part of the atrocities and monstrous instit... ... must shut up all the windows, or the mosquitoes would tempt you to commit suicide. So at this time of the year, you don’t see much of the prospect wi... ...arriages on the Chiaji, or walking in the Public Gardens; and quiet letter writers, perched behind their little desks and inkstands under the Portico ... ...g their productions to their friends; inscriptions chalked upon the walls; political squibs, advertisements, rough drawings by schoolboys; everything ...

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...ly along- side. ‘In luck again, Gaffer?’ said a man with a squinting leer, who sculled her and who was alone, ‘I know’d you was in luck again, by your... ...out.’ He spoke in a dropped voice, and with more than one glance at Lizzie who had pulled on her hood again. Both men then looked with a weird unholy ... ...n murder was all over the town, and people were specu- lating on its being suicide, I dare say those impudent wretches at the clubs and places made jo... ...?’ asked Mr Wegg, holding on. ‘Not a proper jail, wot you and me would get committed 56 Our Mutual Friend to,’ returned his escort; ‘they giv’ it the... ...d better drop it!’ turned the disadvantage on Boffin, who felt that he had committed himself in a very painful manner. Then, Mr Wegg, in a dry unflinc... ...of retail dealers history here, geography there, as- tronomy to the right, political economy to the left—natural history , the physical sciences, figu... ...e?’ In sudden low spirits, T wemlow replies, ‘I don’t think he would.’ ‘My political opinions,’ says V eneering, not previously aware of having any, ‘... ...g my ear quite close.’ ‘Will you send it, my dear?’ ‘Will I send it to the writers? Is that your wish? Yes, cer- tainly.’ 510 Our Mutual Friend ‘You’... ...ad begun undressing on the grass. For a moment it had a suspicious look of suicide, arranged to counterfeit accident. ‘But you wouldn’ t have fetched ...

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...red from one of actual occurrence, made public by a dis interested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong fro... ...e Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise dis tinguished in letters, who published an account of it at V erona in 1731, which he afterwards repu... ...ause in hand), which was squeezed dry years upon years ago. The short hand writers, the reporters of the court, and the reporters of the newspapers in... ...h her documents; the empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it,... ...a miserable condition that they would be sufficiently punished if they had committed an enormous crime in having money left them, and the will itself ... ...hink you have any evidence to lead you to the conclusion that he committed suicide, you will come to that conclu sion. If you think it is a case of a... ...y writ ers, and then that you should come and live here, and be one of my writers too. Which there is nothing derogatory, but far from it in the appe... ...e to one.” It is a part of Mr. Tulkinghorn’s policy and mastery to have no political opinions; indeed, no opinions. Therefore he says “you” are beate... ...r marrying an other child, and having two more, was all wrong in point of political economy, but it was very agreeable. We had our 593 Bleak House –...

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... Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...ppy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, wi... ...gh preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhap... ...ike one,” returned the baron scornfully . ‘“I am the Genius of Despair and Suicide,” said the appari- tion. “Now you know me.” ‘With these words the a... ...imself because he has none or little.” ‘Whether the genius unintentionally committed himself in saying this, or whether he thought the baron’s mind wa... ...ks, flit restlessly to and fro like the troubled ghosts of Complete Letter-writers departed. This is Manchester Buildings; and here, at all hours of t... ... general impression seemed to be, that as an explanation of Mr Gregsbury’s political con- duct, it did not enter quite enough into detail; and one gen... ...raphs on passing events; such as “Mysterious disappear- ance, and supposed suicide of a potboy,” or anything of that sort, upon which I might found a ... ...nk I understand,’ said Nicholas. ‘With regard to such questions as are not political,’ contin- ued Mr Gregsbury , warming; ‘and which one can’ t be ex... ...way to the melancholy reflections which pressed thickly upon him. T o have committed no fault, and yet to be so entirely alone in the world; to be sep...

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... Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...ppy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, wi... ...gh preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhap... ...ike one,” returned the baron scornfully . ‘“I am the Genius of Despair and Suicide,” said the appari- tion. “Now you know me.” ‘With these words the a... ...imself because he has none or little.” ‘Whether the genius unintentionally committed himself in saying this, or whether he thought the baron’s mind wa... ...ks, flit restlessly to and fro like the troubled ghosts of Complete Letter-writers departed. This is Manchester Buildings; and here, at all hours of t... ... general impression seemed to be, that as an explanation of Mr Gregsbury’s political con- duct, it did not enter quite enough into detail; and one gen... ...nk I understand,’ said Nicholas. ‘With regard to such questions as are not political,’ contin- ued Mr Gregsbury , warming; ‘and which one can’ t be ex... ...way to the melancholy reflections which pressed thickly upon him. T o have committed no fault, and yet to be so entirely alone in the world; to be sep... ...d and silver. W ritten by Arthur Gride. He, he, he! None of your storybook writers will ever make as good a book as this, I warrant me. It’s composed ...