 ... swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never...  Hard Times: A Novel - Pàgina 25per Charles Dickens - 1854 - 101 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Donald Hawes - 1998 - 310 pàgines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility.' He is in his late forties but looks older. He delights in boasting of his poverty to Mrs Sparsit, his... | |
 | Anne Waldron Neumann - 1999 - 196 pàgines
...manufacturer, and what not', a man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility. Claiming to have been born in a ditch and abandoned in infancy to a drunken, abusive grandmother, Mr... | |
 | Alexander Welsh - 2000 - 252 pàgines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a selfmade man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility. (1.4.16-17) Again, the very metaphor and reach of the description, lively enough in themselves, are... | |
 | Ray Barker, Christine Moorcroft - 2002 - 76 pàgines
...vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through his brassy speaking trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty....who was the bully of humility. A year or two younger t han his eminently practical friend, Mr Bounderby looked older; his seven or eight and forty might... | |
 | George Baird - 1995 - 428 pàgines
...to make so much of him. ... A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the bully of humility.14 Gradgrind, on the other hand, is a social philosopher, educationalist, and politician.... | |
 | Alan Palmer - 2004 - 300 pàgines
...description of his appearance.] A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility" (199S, 21, quoted in O'Neill 1994, 50). There is a lot of action here for a passage that is supposed... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2004 - 1354 pàgines
...vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty....seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1924 - 366 pàgines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left,... | |
 | C. A. & Thomas, B. R. - 1994 - 304 pàgines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1875 - 300 pàgines
...balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet...seven or eight added to it again, without surprising anybody. He had not much hair. One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left,... | |
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