LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen -Chapter 26

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 26

... shuffling pace, and seemed to breathe more freely. Near to the spot on which Snow Hill and Holborn Hill meet, opens, upon the right hand as you come out of the City, a narrow and dismal alley, ... sale huge bunches of second- hand silk handkerchiefs, of all sizes and patterns; for here reside the traders who purchase them from pick-pockets. Hundreds of these handkerchiefs hang dangling from ... as sign-boards to the petty thief; here, stores of old iron and bones, and heaps of mildewy fragments of woollen-stuff and linen, rust and rot in the grimy cellars. It was into this place that...

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 9

... other, and a watch in his waistcoat pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and sticking a mock diamond pin in his shirt: buttoned his coat tight round him, and putting his spectacle-case and handkerchief ... drawn forth from the same box, and surveyed with equal pleasure; besides rings, brooches, bracelet, and other articles of jewellery, of such magnificent materials, and costly workmanship, that ... in the palm of his hand. There seemed to be some very minute inscription on it; for the Jew laid it flat upon the table, and shading it with his hand, pored over it, long and earnestly. At length...

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER I0

... possibly go, to see the Dodger plunge his hand into the old gentleman’s pocket, and draw from thence a handkerchief! To see him hand the same to Charley Bates; and finally to behold them, both running ... rousing up the dogs, and astonishing the fowls: and streets, squares, and courts, re- echo with the sound. ’Stop thief! Stop thief!’ The cry is taken up by a hundred voices, and the crowd accumulate ... putting his hand to his pocket, and missing his handkerchief, turned sharp round. Seeing the boy scudding away at such a rapid pace, he very naturally concluded him to be the depredator; and shouting...

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER I1

... the office!’ The mandate was obeyed; and the indignant Mr. Brownlow was conveyed out, with the book in one hand, and the bamboo cane in the other: in a perfect phrenzy of rage and defiance. He ... stiff-necked, middle-sized man, with no great quantity of hair, and what he had, growing on the back and sides of his head. His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the ... decision of his, and commending him, for the three hundred and fiftieth time, to the special and particular notice of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. He was out of temper; and he looked...

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 30

... Oh! as you love me, and know that I have never felt the want of parents in your goodness and affection, but that I might have done so, and might have been equally helpless and unprotected with ... several turns up and down the room; often stopping, and balancing himself on his toes, and frowning frightfully. After various exclamations of ‘I’ve got it now’ and ‘no, I haven’t,’ and as many renewals ... hands that night; and loveliness and virtue watched him as he slept. He felt calm and happy, and could have died without a murmur. The momentous interview was no sooner concluded, and Oliver composed...

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 12

... new friends. The sun rose and sank, and rose and sank again, and many times after that; and still the boy lay stretched on his uneasy bed, dwindling away beneath the dry and wasting heat of fever. ... of maxim and theory: and, by a very neat and pretty compliment to her exalted wisdom and understanding, putting entirely out of sight any considerations of heart, or generous impulse and feeling. ... actuated by a very laudable and becoming regard for themselves; and forasmuch as the freedom of the subject and the liberty of the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted...

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 13

... its being adopted. This was, that the Dodger, and Charley Bates, and Fagin, and Mr. William Sikes, happened, one and all, to entertain a violent and deeply- rooted antipathy to going near a police-office ... striped waistcoat; and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded her own dear ... could afford to throw away any drink but water and not that, unless he done the River Company every quarter. Wot’s it all about, Fagin? D—me, if my neck-handkercher an’t lined with beer! Come in,...

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 21

... corner of the market; and the unwashed, unshaven, squalid, and dirty figues constantly running to and fro, and bursting in and out of the throng; rendered it a stunning and bewildering scene, ... oaths, and quarrelling on all sides; the ringing of bells and roar of voices, that issued from every public-house; the crowding, pushing, driving, beating, whooping and yelling; the hideous and ... got into the street; blowing and raining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy. The night had been very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels were overflowing....

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 22

... the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore ... contents of the glass, and immediately fell into a violent fit of coughing: which delighted Toby Crackit and Barney, and even drew a smile from the surly Mr. Sikes. This done, and Sikes having satisfied ... the other two were on their legs, and all were actively engaged in busy preparation. Sikes and his companion enveloped their necks and chins in large dark shawls, and drew on their great-coats;...

LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-Oliver Twist -Charles Dickens -CHAPTER 14

... an amiable and handsome daughter of hers, who was married to an amiable and handsome man, and lived in the country; and about a son, who was clerk to a merchant in the West Indies; and who was, ... him, and asked her to sell them to a Jew, and keep the money for herself. This she very readily did; and, as Oliver looked out of the parlour window, and saw the Jew roll them up in his bag and ... she could teach: and at which game they played, with great interest and gravity, until it was time for the invalid to have some warm wine and water, with a slice of dry toast, and then to go cosily...

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