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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens
Summer, Spring, Winter

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens
Summer, Nature, Spring
Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

Charles Dickens
Summer, Morning, Air
Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz: Pseud. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People”, p.55

This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.

Charles Dickens
Summer, Reading, Boys
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4368, Delphi Classics

Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and stretching forth their green arms over the thirsty ground, converted open and naked spots into choice nooks, where was a deep and pleasant shade from which to look upon the wide prospect, steeped in sunshine, which lay stretched out beyond.

Charles Dickens
Beautiful, Summer, Strong
Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1838). “Oliver Twist: Or, The Parish Boy's Progress”

Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

Charles Dickens
Life, Summer, Passion
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.12259, Delphi Classics

....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

Charles Dickens
Summer, Ice, Mind
Charles Dickens (1842). “American Notes for General Circulation”, p.170

From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman

Charles Dickens
Summer, Spiritual, Winter
Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.123, GENERAL PRESS

A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns.

Charles Dickens
Summer, Country, Nature
Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.318, Kartindo.com

On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

Charles Dickens
Funny, Summer, Powerful
Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.57

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