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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his childhood.
He was forced to work for his own living for Mr. Murdstone's friend Mr. Quinion at London by his stepfather Mr. Murdstone.
He lodges at a house, the master of which Mr. Micawber is so very poor, and goes to his work Murdstone and Grinby's.
At last Mr. Micawber was imprisoned in the King's Bench Prison for his dept.
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When my thoughts go back now to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of the histories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy over well-remembered facts! When I tread the old ground, I do not wonder that I seem to see and pity, going on before me, an innocent romantic boy, making his imaginative world our of such strange experiences and sordid things.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know the underlined clause means the following:
I seem to see an innocent romantic boy going on before me and I seem pity.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He was forced to work for his own living for Mr. Murdstone's friend Mr. Quinion at London by his stepfather Mr. Murdstone.
He lodges at a house, the master of which Mr. Micawber is so very poor, and goes to his work Murdstone and Grinby's.
At last Mr. Micawber was imprisoned in the King's Bench Prison for his dept.
..............................
When my thoughts go back now to that slow agony of my youth, I wonder how much of the histories I invented for such people hangs like a mist of fancy over well-remembered facts! When I tread the old ground, I do not wonder that I seem to see and pity, going on before me, an innocent romantic boy, making his imaginative world our of such strange experiences and sordid things.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know the underlined clause means the following:
I seem to see an innocent romantic boy going on before me and I seem pity.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon I'd like to know the underlined clause means the following:I seem to see an innocent romantic boy going on before me and I seem pity. No; read it just as it is: he seems to see and pity the boy . The boy is, of course, himself.
- park sang joon I'd like to know the underlined clause means the following:I seem to see an innocent romantic boy going on before me and I seem pity.
- No; read it just as it is: he seems to see and pity the boy .
- The boy is, of course, himself.
- park sang joon I seem pity That is not good grammar and its meaning is murky.
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park sang joonI'd like to know the underlined clause means the following:I seem to see an innocent romantic boy going on before me and I seem pity.No; read it just as it is: he seems to see and pity the boy. The boy is, of course, himself.
park sang joonI seem pityThat is not good grammar and its meaning is murky.
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