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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #1
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
He is crazy for Mr. Spenlow's only daughter Dora.
Peggotty is his old nurse and a present wealthy widow.
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I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery. And by the by, it used to be uncommonly strange to me to consider. I remember, as I sat in Court too, how those dim old judges and doctors wouldn't have cared for Dora, if they had known her; how they wouldn't have gone out of their senses with rapture, if marriage with Dora had been proposed to them; how Dora might have sung, and played upon that glorified guitar, until she led me to the verge of madness, yet not have tempted one of those slow-goers an inch out of his road!
I despised them, to a man. Frozen-out old gardeners in the flower-beds of the heart, I took a personal offence against them all. The Bench was nothing to me but an insensible blunderer. The Bar had no more tenderness or poetry in it, than the bar of a public-house.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "about" means "around."
2. I'd like to know the nominal clause in blue is the object of "consider."
3. And I'd like to know what "of the hear" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
He is crazy for Mr. Spenlow's only daughter Dora.
Peggotty is his old nurse and a present wealthy widow.
.................................
I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery. And by the by, it used to be uncommonly strange to me to consider. I remember, as I sat in Court too, how those dim old judges and doctors wouldn't have cared for Dora, if they had known her; how they wouldn't have gone out of their senses with rapture, if marriage with Dora had been proposed to them; how Dora might have sung, and played upon that glorified guitar, until she led me to the verge of madness, yet not have tempted one of those slow-goers an inch out of his road!
I despised them, to a man. Frozen-out old gardeners in the flower-beds of the heart, I took a personal offence against them all. The Bench was nothing to me but an insensible blunderer. The Bar had no more tenderness or poetry in it, than the bar of a public-house.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "about" means "around."
2. I'd like to know the nominal clause in blue is the object of "consider."
3. And I'd like to know what "of the hear" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. Yes, same thing. The radiance surrounds him.
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- Yes, same thing.
- The radiance surrounds him.
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- " The sentence before about it being "strange to consider," only prepares the reader for what follows.
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1. Yes, same thing. The radiance surrounds him.
2. I would say, instead, that the "how" sections are the object of "remember." The sentence before about it being "strange to consider," only prepares the reader for what follows. (And I find it a bit confusing as written.)
3. You mean "of the heart." "The flower-beds of the heart" is poetic language. It treats one's feelings a
2. I would say, instead, that the "how" sections are the object of "remember." The sentence before about it being "strange to consider," only prepares the reader for what follows. (And I find it a bit confusing as written.)
3. You mean "of the heart." "The flower-beds of the heart" is poetic language. It treats one's feelings a
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