All 50 Uses of
Handel
in
Great Expectations
- Would you mind Handel for a familiar name?†
Chpt 22 *
- There's a charming piece of music by Handel, called the Harmonious Blacksmith.†
Chpt 22
- "Then, my dear Handel," said he, turning round as the door opened, "here is the dinner, and I must beg of you to take the top of the table, because the dinner is of your providing."†
Chpt 22
- Let me introduce the topic, Handel, by mentioning that in London it is not the custom to put the knife in the mouth,—for fear of accidents,—and that while the fork is reserved for that use, it is not put further in than necessary.†
Chpt 22
- "I thought he was proud," said I. "My good Handel, so he was.†
Chpt 22
- Now, I come to the cruel part of the story,—merely breaking off, my dear Handel, to remark that a dinner-napkin will not go into a tumbler.†
Chpt 22
- I never saw him (for this happened five-and-twenty years ago, before you and I were, Handel), but I have heard my father mention that he was a showy man, and the kind of man for the purpose.†
Chpt 22
- And now, Handel," said he, finally throwing off the story as it were, "there is a perfectly open understanding between us.†
Chpt 22
- "You don't mind them, Handel?" said Herbert.†
Chpt 28
- Good by, Handel!†
Chpt 28
- "My dear Handel," he returned, "I shall esteem and respect your confidence."†
Chpt 30
- "How do you know it?" said I. "How do I know it, Handel?†
Chpt 30
- "Lucky for you then, Handel," said Herbert, "that you are picked out for her and allotted to her.†
Chpt 30
- She is thousands of miles away, from me," said I. "Patience, my dear Handel: time enough, time enough.†
Chpt 30
- "Now, Handel," Herbert replied, in his gay, hopeful way, "it seems to me that in the despondency of the tender passion, we are looking into our gift-horse's mouth with a magnifying-glass.†
Chpt 30
- Handel, my good fellow;"—though he spoke in this light tone, he was very much in earnest,—"I have been thinking since we have been talking with our feet on this fender, that Estella surely cannot be a condition of your inheritance, if she was never referred to by your guardian.†
Chpt 30
- Now, Handel, I am quite free from the flavor of sour grapes, upon my soul and honor!†
Chpt 30
- "Yes; but my dear Handel," Herbert went on, as if we had been talking, instead of silent, "its having been so strongly rooted in the breast of a boy whom nature and circumstances made so romantic, renders it very serious.†
Chpt 30
- You can't try, Handel?†
Chpt 30
- I was going to say a word or two, Handel, concerning my father and my father's son.†
Chpt 30
- Gravely, Handel, for the subject is grave enough, you know how it is as well as I do.†
Chpt 30
- "For," says Herbert to me, coming home to dinner on one of those special occasions, "I find the truth to be, Handel, that an opening won't come to one, but one must go to it,—so I have been."†
Chpt 34
- "My dear Handel," Herbert would say to me, in all sincerity, if you will believe me, those very words were on my lips, by a strange coincidence."†
Chpt 34
- "They are mounting up, Handel," Herbert would say; "upon my life, they are mounting up."†
Chpt 34
- So I would, Handel, only they are staring me out of countenance.†
Chpt 34
- "It's for you, Handel," said Herbert, going out and coming back with it, "and I hope there is nothing the matter."†
Chpt 34
- Handel, my dear fellow, how are you, and again how are you, and again how are you?†
Chpt 40
- Handel, my— Halloa!†
Chpt 40
- "My poor dear Handel," he replied, holding his head, "I am too stunned to think."†
Chpt 41
- "My poor dear Handel," Herbert repeated.†
Chpt 41
- "Anyhow, my dear Handel," said he presently, "soldiering won't do.†
Chpt 41
- My good Handel, is it not obvious that with Newgate in the next street, there must be far greater hazard in your breaking your mind to him and making him reckless, here, than elsewhere.†
Chpt 41
- "Handel," said Herbert, stopping, "you feel convinced that you can take no further benefits from him; do you?"†
Chpt 41
- "All is well, Handel," said Herbert, "and he is quite satisfied, though eager to see you.†
Chpt 46
- A curious place, Handel; isn't it?†
Chpt 46
- For, Clara has no mother of her own, Handel, and no relation in the world but old Gruffandgrim.†
Chpt 46
- What do you suppose he wants now, Handel?†
Chpt 46
- We are both good watermen, Handel, and could take him down the river ourselves when the right time comes.†
Chpt 46
- I sat with Provis last night, Handel, two good hours.†
Chpt 50
- Do you know, Handel, he improves?†
Chpt 50
- but it will be comfortable presently, —it seems that the woman was a young woman, and a jealous woman, and a revengeful woman; revengeful, Handel, to the last degree.†
Chpt 50
- —My poor Handel, I hurt you!†
Chpt 50
- Gently, Handel.†
Chpt 53
- But you can't help groaning, my dear Handel.†
Chpt 53
- It was at this dark time of my life that Herbert returned home one evening, a good deal cast down, and said,— "My dear Handel, I fear I shall soon have to leave you."†
Chpt 55
- We shall lose a fine opportunity if I put off going to Cairo, and I am very much afraid I must go, Handel, when you most need me.†
Chpt 55
- But yours cannot be dismissed; indeed, my dear dear Handel, it must not be dismissed.†
Chpt 55
- "I will," said I. "In this branch house of ours, Handel, we must have a—" I saw that his delicacy was avoiding the right word, so I said, "A clerk."†
Chpt 55
- Now, Handel,—in short, my dear boy, will you come to me?†
Chpt 55
- There was something charmingly cordial and engaging in the manner in which after saying "Now, Handel," as if it were the grave beginning of a portentous business exordium, he had suddenly given up that tone, stretched out his honest hand, and spoken like a schoolboy.†
Chpt 55
Definition:
British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)