Charlotte — my thirty years' companion. There is the same symmetry of form, though those limbs are rigid which were once so gracefully elastic — but that yellow masque, with pinched features, which seems to mock life rather than emulate it, can it... The Letters of Charles Dickens: 1836 to 1870 - Page 11by Charles Dickens - 1882Full view - About this book
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 422 pages
..." I have seen her. The figure I beheld is, and is not my Charlotte — my thirty years' companion. There is the same symmetry of form, though those limbs...once so full of lively expression ? I will not look on it again. Anne thinks her little changed, because the latest idea she had formed of her mother is... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 672 pages
...years' companion. There is the same symmetry of form, though those limbs are rigid which were crce so gracefully elastic — but that yellow masque,...the face that was once so full of lively expression ? Anne thinks her little changed, because the latest idea she had formed of her mother is as she appeared... | |
| 1838 - 588 pages
...are rigid which were once so gracefully elastic — but that yellow masque, with pinched featurea, which seems to mock life rather than emulate it, can it be the face that wasonceso full of lively expression? I will not look on it again.*' * " " Another day, and a bright... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1839 - 420 pages
..." I have seen her. The figure I beheld is, and is not my Charlotte — my thirty years' companion. There is the same symmetry of form, though those limbs...once so full of lively expression ? I will not look on it again. Anne thinks her little changed, because the latest idea she had formed of her mother is... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...Charlotte — my thirty years' companion. There is the same symmetry of form, though those VOL. VIII. Y limbs are rigid which were once so gracefully elastic...once so full of lively expression ? I will not look on it again. Anne thinks her little changed, because the latest idea she had formed of her mother is... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...Charlotte — my thirty years' companion. There is the same symmetry of form, though those VIII. • Y limbs are rigid which were once so gracefully elastic...once so full of lively expression ? I will not look on it again. Anne thinks her little changed, because the latest idea she had formed of her mother is... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1839 - 466 pages
...of form, though those limbs are rigid which were once so gracefully elastic —but that yellow mask, with pinched features, which seems to mock life rather...once so full of lively expression ? I will not look on it again. Anne thinks her little changed, because the latest idea she had formed of her mother is... | |
| 1840 - 48 pages
...companion. There is the same symmetry of form — but that yellow mask, with pinched features, which seem to mock life rather than emulate it, can it be the face that was ever so full of lively expression ? I will not look on it again. "May J8. — Another day, and a bright... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
..." I have seen her. The figure I beheld is, and is not, my Charlotte — my thirty years' companion. There is the same symmetry of form, though those limbs...once so full of lively expression ? I will not look on it again. Anne thinks her little changed, because the latest idea she had formed of her mother is... | |
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