Posts Tagged ‘Charles Dickens’

by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.       Note: Today is the birthday of the English Victorian era author and social critic Charles Dickens, born on this day, February 7, 1812. Charles Dickens’ personal garden was called…

by Charles Dickens, The Life, and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels…       Note: Today is the birthday of the English Victorian era author and social critic Charles Dickens, born…

by Charles Dickens, Bleak House Around and around the house, the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is somber and slow.       Note: Today is the birthday of the English Victorian era author and social critic Charles Dickens, born on this day, February…

by Charles Dickens, Hard Times Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.         Note: Today is the birthday of the English Victorian era author and social critic Charles Dickens, born on this day, February 7, 1812. Charles Dickens’ personal garden was called Gad’s Hill Place.…

by Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and…