“It seemed such an extraordinary thing to have Dora always there. It was so unaccountable not to be obliged to go out and see her, not to have any occasion to be tormenting myself about her, not to have to write to her, not to be scheming and devising any opportunities of being alone withContinue reading “RKS Literature: Newly Married Copperfield in Marital Bliss (Charles Dickens)”
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RKS Literature: The Importance of Earnestness (Dickens)
“I have always been thoroughly in earnest. I have never believed it possible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the companionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities, and hope to gain its end. There is no such thing as fulfillment on this earth. Some happy talent, and some fortunate opportunity, mayContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Importance of Earnestness (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Attributes of My Success (Dickens)
“….I will only add, to what I have already written of my perseverance at this time of my life, and of a patient and continuous energy which then began to be matured within me, and which I know to be the strong part of my character, if it have any strength at all, that there,Continue reading “RKS Literature: Attributes of My Success (Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Master Copperfield is Head Over Heels
“I had no intention of saying (and had been studying the best form of words for three miles) that I thought them beautiful before I saw them so near her. But I couldn’t manage it. She was too bewildering. To see her lay the flowers against her little dimpled chin, was to lose all presenceContinue reading “RKS Literature: Master Copperfield is Head Over Heels”
RKS Literature: Being on the “Right Side” of the Family (Charles Dickens)
‘Miss Trotwood’ he remarked. ‘is very firm no doubt, and not likely to give way to opposition. I have an admiration for her character, and I may congratulate you, Copperfield, on being on the right side. Differences between relations are much to be deplored-but they are extremely general-and the great thing is, to be onContinue reading “RKS Literature: Being on the “Right Side” of the Family (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: A Twit Pontificates on Aristocratic Blood (Charles Dickens)
‘Oh you know, deuce take it’ said this gentleman, looking round the board with an imbecile smile,’ we can’t forego Blood, you know. We must have Blood, you know. Some young fellows, you know, may be a little behind their station, perhaps, in point of education and behaviour, and may be a little wrong, youContinue reading “RKS Literature: A Twit Pontificates on Aristocratic Blood (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: Mr. Micawber’s Creditors (Charles Dickens)
“The only visitors I ever saw or heard of, were creditors. They used to come at all hours, and some of them were quite ferocious. One dirty-faced man, I think he was a bootmaker, used to edge himself into the passage as early as seven o’clock in the morning and call up the stairs, toContinue reading “RKS Literature: Mr. Micawber’s Creditors (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: The Secret Agony of My Soul (Charles Dickens)
“No words can express the secret agony of my soul as I sunk into this companionship; compared these hence-forth every-day associates with those of my happier childhood-not to say with Steerforth, Traddles and the rest of those boys; and felt my hopes of growing up to be a learned and distinguished man crushed in myContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Secret Agony of My Soul (Charles Dickens)”
RKS Literature: The Cruel Mr. Creakle Looks for His Next Victim (Charles Dickens)
“Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye, as he rules out a ciphering book, with a pocket handkerchief. I have plenty to do. I don’t watch his eye in idleness but because I am morbidly attracted to it, in a dread desire to know what he will do next, and whether itContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Cruel Mr. Creakle Looks for His Next Victim (Charles Dickens)”
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