#wordoftheday #whattheDickens @Cuilin
The definition sort of begs the question doesn‘t it?
“Then, Mr Brass left off writing entirely, and, with his pen in his hand, hummed his very loudest; shaking his head meanwhile from side to side, like a man whose whole soul was in the music, and smiling in a manner quite seraphic.”
pickI see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.
Chapter 16 (Volume II, Chapter IV):"In the course of the same morning, Anne and her father chancing to be alone together, he began to compliment her on her improved looks;" - Persuasion.
I think this cover has made Anne too glamorous but it is a gorgeous edition. ?
#pemberlittens
#janeaustenthenandnow
#pagesofpersuasion
An old copy of a classic will always catch my attention at a thrift store, and barring any weird smells, it‘s coming home with me. I didn‘t see the notes on the inside covers until after the fact. Pretty sweet surprise! 🙌🤓
At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.
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Random book from our personal library. A short graphic adaptation for school-age kids.
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: And if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praise-worthy.
#FirstLineFridays
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