 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent •heel-lightning, playing under the edge of the summer cloud, does to the electric deathspark hid in its womb.—" OUHKEK BILL," Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, and ViUette. History of Henry Esmond, Late Colonel in the... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 352 pages
...as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped state of things His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both...does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb." Anne Bronte had been more than usually delicate all the summer, and her sensitive spirit had been deeply... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 308 pages
...attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius, that the mere lambent sheetlightuing, playing under the edge of the summer cloud, does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb." Anne Bronte had been more than usually delicate all the summer, and her sensitive spirit had been deeply... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1859 - 432 pages
...a vulture ; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his...does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. — " CUEBER BELL, Author of Jone Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. •-pHE VIRGINIANS. With... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 266 pages
...a vulture ; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his...does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.— " C'UBEBE BELI," Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villctte, and The Professor. ANITY FAIR. A Novel without... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1862 - 360 pages
...a vulture ; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his...does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. — CUKRER BELL, Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. E ADVENTURES OF PHILIP... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1862 - 288 pages
...a vulture; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his...cloud, does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.—CUBBEH BELL, Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. T-4HE ADVENTURES OF... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 pages
...attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius, that the mere lambent sheetlightuing, playing under the edge of the summer cloud, does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb." Anne Bronte had been more than usually delicate all the summer, and her sensitive spirit had been deeply... | |
 | Eliza Tabor - 1864 - 176 pages
...does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive ; but both bear the same relation to his serious genins that the mere lambent sheet-lightning, playing under...does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. — " CUEREE BELL," Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, Vtllette, and The Professor. VANITY FAIH. A Novel... | |
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His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. 
