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
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.
appear breaking cannot command control creature cried face felt followed hands head life man misfortune motion shook starting stronger torn wipe
Oh, what a misfortune is mine, cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the starting perspiration from his face as he shook from head to foot, ""that I cannot so control myself as to appear a stronger creature than this, when a man who has not felt in all his life what I have felt in a day can so command himself!"" He said it in a very agony, and even followed it with an errant motion of his hands as if he could have torn himself.
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.
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.
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.
art clean dirt exquisite joe
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.
burdens useless worth
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.