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
although road thee time
Although it's a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops.
frequently hundred
As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.
bearing outward
A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a monster.
engine genius longest man running stopping
A bill, by the bye, is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.
literary man
A literary man - with a wooden leg.
head king mistake putting trouble
The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head.
appearance shall wife
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
face girl greater lonely mystery studied women
There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...
belongs bring buy cast eyes grew idle meaning power true turning watched wealth weighed words
There is no wealth, she went on, turning paler as she watched him, while her eyes grew yet more lustrous in their earnestness, ""that could buy these words of me, and the meaning that belongs to them. Once cast away as idle breath, no wealth or power can bring them back. I mean them; I have weighed them; and I will be true to what I undertake.
annual english-novelist income nineteen result twenty
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
annual income nineteen ought pounds result twenty
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
lighthouse man quiet situation took
Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse
business increase law
The business of the law is to increase the business of the law
bread bright coming cry dear england english fine gentle hail iron rally rich round rulers runs shall sword tory
The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread / in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!