All 50 Uses of
Handel
in
Great Expectations
- Would you mind Handel for a familiar name?†
p. 187.3 *
- There's a charming piece of music by Handel, called the Harmonious Blacksmith.†
p. 187.3
- "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."†
p. 187.3
- 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.†
p. 187.9
- "I thought he was proud," said I. "My good Handel, so he was.†
p. 188.7
- 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.†
p. 189.3
- 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.†
p. 189.6
- And now, Handel," said he, finally throwing off the story as it were, "there is a perfectly open understanding between us.†
p. 191.5
- "You don't mind them, Handel?" said Herbert.†
p. 239.5
- Good by, Handel!†
p. 241.4
- "My dear Handel," he returned, "I shall esteem and respect your confidence."†
p. 261.4
- "How do you know it?" said I. "How do I know it, Handel?†
p. 261.8
- "Lucky for you then, Handel," said Herbert, "that you are picked out for her and allotted to her.†
p. 262.1
- She is thousands of miles away, from me," said I. "Patience, my dear Handel: time enough, time enough.†
p. 262.3
- "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.†
p. 263.1
- 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.†
p. 264.0
- Now, Handel, I am quite free from the flavor of sour grapes, upon my soul and honor!†
p. 264.3
- "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.†
p. 264.6
- You can't try, Handel?†
p. 264.8
- I was going to say a word or two, Handel, concerning my father and my father's son.†
p. 265.1
- Gravely, Handel, for the subject is grave enough, you know how it is as well as I do.†
p. 265.3
- "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."†
p. 292.4
- "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."†
p. 292.9
- "They are mounting up, Handel," Herbert would say; "upon my life, they are mounting up."†
p. 293.8
- So I would, Handel, only they are staring me out of countenance.†
p. 293.9
- "It's for you, Handel," said Herbert, going out and coming back with it, "and I hope there is nothing the matter."†
p. 295.0
- Handel, my dear fellow, how are you, and again how are you, and again how are you?†
p. 359.1
- Handel, my—Halloa!†
p. 359.2
- "My poor dear Handel," he replied, holding his head, "I am too stunned to think."†
p. 362.1
- "My poor dear Handel," Herbert repeated.†
p. 362.4
- "Anyhow, my dear Handel," said he presently, "soldiering won't do.†
p. 362.8
- 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.†
p. 364.0
- "Handel," said Herbert, stopping, "you feel convinced that you can take no further benefits from him; do you?"†
p. 364.4
- "All is well, Handel," said Herbert, "and he is quite satisfied, though eager to see you.†
p. 397.4
- A curious place, Handel; isn't it?†
p. 398.1
- For, Clara has no mother of her own, Handel, and no relation in the world but old Gruffandgrim.†
p. 398.2
- What do you suppose he wants now, Handel?†
p. 399.6
- We are both good watermen, Handel, and could take him down the river ourselves when the right time comes.†
p. 401.4
- I sat with Provis last night, Handel, two good hours.†
p. 430.2
- Do you know, Handel, he improves?†
p. 430.6
- 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.†
p. 431.2
- —My poor Handel, I hurt you!†
p. 431.5
- Gently, Handel.†
p. 458.1
- But you can't help groaning, my dear Handel.†
p. 458.4
- 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."†
p. 478.6
- 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.†
p. 478.7
- But yours cannot be dismissed; indeed, my dear dear Handel, it must not be dismissed.†
p. 479.1
- "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."†
p. 479.2
- Now, Handel,—in short, my dear boy, will you come to me?†
p. 479.3
- 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.†
p. 479.4
Definition:
British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)