 Fermor wants relief. It is a disagreeable character, as you mean it to be, and I should be afraid to do so much with him, if the case were mine, without taking the taste of him, here and there, out of the reader's mouth. It is remarkable that if you do...  Dickens - Page 216by Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1882 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1879 - 558 pages
...mine, without taking the taste of him, here and there, out of the reader's mouth. It is remarkable that if you do not administer a disagreeable character...story is disagreeable, and not merely the fictitious person. What do you think of the title, NEVER FORGOTTEN ? It is a good one in itself, would express... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 618 pages
...taste of him, here and there, out of the reader's mouth. It is remarkable that if you do not adminster a disagreeable character carefully, the public have...story is disagreeable, and not merely the fictitious person. What do you think of the title, NEVER FORGOTTEN? It is a good one in itself, would express... | |
 | 1881 - 978 pages
...that affected the reception of a story, and says, shrewdly, in one of his notes, " It is remarkable that if you do not administer a disagreeable character...story is disagreeable, and not merely the fictitious person." Nothing could be more admirable in an editor working to a common end, as Dickens and his associates... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - 1881 - 984 pages
...affected the reception of a etory, and says, shrewdly, in one of his notes, " It is remarkable that if yon do not administer a disagreeable character carefully,...story is disagreeable, and not merely the fictitious person." Nothing could be more admirable iu au editor working to a common end, as Dickeus aud his associates... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1881 - 986 pages
...his notes, " It is remarkable that if yon do not administer a disagreeable character carefully, tho public have a decided tendency to think that the story is disagreeable, and not merely the fictitious person." Nothing could be more admirable in an editor working to a common end, as Dickens and his associates... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1883 - 388 pages
...were mine, without taking the taste of him here and there out of the reader's mouth. It is remarkable that, if you do not administer a disagreeable character...story is disagreeable, and not merely the fictitious person. " What do you think of this title, ' Never Forgotten ?' It is a good one in itself, and would... | |
 | his sister- in law and his eldest daughter - 1893 - 790 pages
...mine, without taking the taste of him, here and there, out of the reader's mouth. It is remarkable that if you do not administer a disagreeable character...story is disagreeable, and not merely the fictitious person. What do you think of the title, NEVER FORGOTTEN ? It is a good one in itself, would express... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 624 pages
...state of philanthropic exultation; and watched round corners by 'umble but observant Uriah Keeps ; and affronted in what is best in us by the worst hypocrite...benevolence," to borrow a phrase from a noble passage in Dickens's most congenial predecessor. These characters in Dickens have a warmth which only the creations... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 574 pages
...mine, without taking the taste of him, here and there, out of the reader's mouth. It is remarkable that if you do not administer a disagreeable character...story is disagreeable, and not merely the fictitious person. What do you think of the title, NEVER FORGOTTEN? It is a good one in itself, would express... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1905 - 346 pages
...mouth. It is remarkable that if you do not administer a disagreeable character carefully the public has a decided tendency to think that the story is disagreeable, and not merely a fiction.' Most judicious advice. So I might fairly say I was in some measure a pupil of Dickens in... | |
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