All 15 Uses of
narrative
in
David Copperfield
- Yet, I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still) that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.†
Chpt Pref.
- Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.†
Chpt Pref.
- I might have a misgiving that I am 'meandering' in stopping to say this, but that it brings me to remark that I build these conclusions, in part upon my own experience of myself; and if it should appear from anything I may set down in this narrative that I was a child of close observation, or that as a man I have a strong memory of my childhood, I undoubtedly lay claim to both of these characteristics.†
Chpt 1-3
- Poor Traddles — I never think of that boy but with a strange disposition to laugh, and with tears in my eyes — was a sort of chorus, in general; and affected to be convulsed with mirth at the comic parts, and to be overcome with fear when there was any passage of an alarming character in the narrative.†
Chpt 7-9
- I could not forget how my mother had thought that she felt her touch her pretty hair with no ungentle hand; and though it might have been altogether my mother's fancy, and might have had no foundation whatever in fact, I made a little picture, out of it, of my terrible aunt relenting towards the girlish beauty that I recollected so well and loved so much, which softened the whole narrative.†
Chpt 10-12
- I have lifted it for a moment, even in this narrative, with a reluctant hand, and dropped it gladly.†
Chpt 13-15
- Mr. Peggotty's face, which had varied in its expression with the various stages of his narrative, now resumed all its former triumphant delight, as he laid a hand upon my knee and a hand upon Steerforth's (previously wetting them both, for the greater emphasis of the action), and divided the following speech between us: 'All of a sudden, one evening — as it might be tonight — comes little Em'ly from her work, and him with her!†
Chpt 19-21
- He told us a merry adventure of his own, as a relief to that, with as much gaiety as if the narrative were as fresh to him as it was to us — and little Em'ly laughed until the boat rang with the musical sounds, and we all laughed (Steerforth too), in irresistible sympathy with what was so pleasant and light-hearted.†
Chpt 19-21
- My narrative proceeds to Agnes, with a thankful love.†
Chpt 40-42
- But, as I have recorded in the narrative of my school days, his veneration for the Doctor was unbounded; and there is a subtlety of perception in real attachment, even when it is borne towards man by one of the lower animals, which leaves the highest intellect behind.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'But you're young!' and resumed his narrative.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- He seemed to pursue her figure through the narrative, and to let every other shape go by him, as if it were nothing.†
Chpt 46-48
- He made his way by sea to Naples, and back, after hearing the narrative to which Miss Dartle had assisted me.†
Chpt 49-51
- CHAPTER 55 TEMPEST I now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages, that, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen it growing larger and larger as I advanced, like a great tower in a plain, and throwing its fore-cast shadow even on the incidents of my childish days.†
Chpt 55-57
- I have made it, thus far, with no purpose of suppressing any of my thoughts; for, as I have elsewhere said, this narrative is my written memory.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(narrative as in: Narrative of the Life of...) a story; or related to a story