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vivids (5)in #childers • 17 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #15/147
Childers replied pointedly, that he was not at all astonished to hear it.‘Very well,’ said Bounderby. ‘I was born in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me. Do I excuse her for…
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vivids (5)in #kidderminster • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #14/147
‘It was you, I believe, that were wishing to see Jupe?’‘It was,’ said Mr Gradgrind. ‘His daughter has gone to fetch him, but I can’t wait; therefore, if you please, I will leave…
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vivids (5)in #pegasus • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #13/147
CHAPTER 6Sleary’s HorsemanshipTHEname of the public house was the Pegasus’s Arms.1The Pegasus’s legs might have been more to the purpose; but, underneath the winged horse upon…
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vivids (5)in #horse • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #12/147
I asked her if she would know how to define a horse tomorrow, and offered to tell her again, and she ran away, and I ran after her, sir, that she might know how to answer when…
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vivids (5)in #chaplain • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #11/147
6Then, came the experienced chaplain of the jail,7with more tabular statements, outdoing all the previous tabular statements, and showing that the same people wouldresort to low…
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vivids (5)in #coketown • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #10/147
CHAPTER 5The Key-noteCOKETOWN, to which Messrs Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs Gradgrind herself. Let…
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vivids (5)in #bounderby • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #9/147
The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed. And yet, Bounderby, it would appear from this unexpected circumstance of today, though in…
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vivids (5)in #culmination • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #8/147
Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. They were right; they had…
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vivids (5)in #bounderbynotbeing • 3 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #7/147
CHAPTER 4Mr BounderbyNOTbeing Mrs Grundy, who wasMr Bounderby?Why, Mr Bounderby was as near being Mr Gradgrind’s bosom friend, as a man perfectly devoid of sentiment can approach…
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vivids (5)in #equestrian • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #6/147
The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray. A flag, floating from the summit…
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vivids (5)in #gradgrinds • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #5/147
CHAPTER 3A LoopholeMRGRADGRINDwalked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction. It was his school, and he intended it to be a model. He intended every…
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vivids (5)in #mathematics • 4 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #4/147
You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact. You don’t walk upon flowers in fact; you cannot be allowed to walk upon flowers in…
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vivids (5)in #pugilist • 5 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #3/147
‘Now girl number twenty,’ said Mr Gradgrind. ‘You know what a horse is.’She curtseyed again, and would have blushed deeper, if she could have blushed deeper than she had blushed…
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vivids (5)in #arithmetic • 5 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #2/147
CHAPTER 2Murdering the Innocents1THOMASGRADGRIND, sir. A man of realities. A man of fact and calculations. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two and two are four, and…
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vivids (5)in #finalbook • 6 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Hard Times #1/147
BOOK THE FIRSTSOWING1. The One Thing Needful2. Murdering the Innocents3. A Loophole4. Mr Bounderby5. The Key-note6. Sleary’s Horsemanship7. Mrs Sparsit8. Never Wonder9. Sissy’s…
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