In Thackeray's London: Pictures and TextDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 199 pages |
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... Dickens the chance to earn an honest penny as an illustrator . Mr. Dickens was just entering into that great fame as a writer of fiction which has never dimmed from that time . The young artist had scarcely attempted literature , and ...
... Dickens the chance to earn an honest penny as an illustrator . Mr. Dickens was just entering into that great fame as a writer of fiction which has never dimmed from that time . The young artist had scarcely attempted literature , and ...
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... Dickens's trib- ute . " He had a particular delight in boys , " he says , “ and an excellent way with them . I remember his once asking me , with fantastic gravity , when he had been to Eton where my eldest son then was , whether I felt ...
... Dickens's trib- ute . " He had a particular delight in boys , " he says , “ and an excellent way with them . I remember his once asking me , with fantastic gravity , when he had been to Eton where my eldest son then was , whether I felt ...
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... Dickens had a still later glimpse of him at the Athenæum . " I saw him . " he says , " shortly before Christmas at the Athenæum , when he told me that he had been in bed three days , that after those attacks he was troubled with cold ...
... Dickens had a still later glimpse of him at the Athenæum . " I saw him . " he says , " shortly before Christmas at the Athenæum , when he told me that he had been in bed three days , that after those attacks he was troubled with cold ...
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... Dickens the best after - dinner speaker now alive was never happier . He spoke as if he was fully conscious that it ... Dickens in the true Sam Weller and Charles Dickens manner . Thackeray , who is far from what is called a good speaker ...
... Dickens the best after - dinner speaker now alive was never happier . He spoke as if he was fully conscious that it ... Dickens in the true Sam Weller and Charles Dickens manner . Thackeray , who is far from what is called a good speaker ...
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... Dickens left , a good reporter might have given all , and with ease , to future ages ; but there could be no reporting what followed . There were words too nimble and too full of flame for a dozen Gurneys , all ears , to catch and ...
... Dickens left , a good reporter might have given all , and with ease , to future ages ; but there could be no reporting what followed . There were words too nimble and too full of flame for a dozen Gurneys , all ears , to catch and ...
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Page 158 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the...
Page 37 - I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Page 101 - Rawdon left her and walked home rapidly. It was nine o'clock at night. He ran across the streets, and the great squares of Vanity Fair, and at length came up breathless opposite his own house. He started back and fell against the railings, trembling as he looked up. The drawing-room windows were blazing with light. She had said that she was in bed and ill.
Page 161 - ... which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.
Page 103 - You innocent! Why, every trinket you have on your body is paid for by me. I have given you thousands of pounds which this fellow has spent, and for which he has sold you. Innocent, by—! You're as innocent as your mother, the balletgirl, and your husband the bully. Don't think to frighten me as you have done others. Make way, sir, and let me pass"; and Lord Steyne seized up his hat, and, with flame in his eyes, and looking his enemy fiercely in the face, marched upon him, never for a moment doubting...
Page 189 - Sir Roger de Coverley walking in the Temple Garden, and discoursing with Mr. Spectator about the beauties in hoops and patches who are sauntering over the grass, is just as lively a figure to me as old Samuel Johnson rolling through the fog with the Scotch gentleman at his heels on their way to Dr. Goldsmith's chambers in Brick Court ; or Harry Fielding, with inked ruffles and a wet towel round his head, dashing off articles at midnight for the Covent Garden Journal, while the printer's boy is asleep...
Page 157 - ... (with lots of cayenne pepper), of pulls on the river, of delicious reading of novels, magazines, and saunterings in many studios ; a land where men call each other by their Christian names ; where most are poor, where almost all are young...
Page 101 - He was in the ball dress in which he had been captured the night before. He went silently up the stairs, leaning against the banisters at the stairhead. Nobody was stirring in the house besides: all the servants had been sent away. Rawdon heard laughter within — laughter and singing. Becky was singing a snatch of the song of the night before; a hoarse voice shouted "Brava! Brava!
Page 104 - Why have I alluded to this man? I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognized ; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day — as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things...
Page 37 - A plenty of candles lights up this chapel, and this scene of age and youth, and early memories, and pompous death. How solemn the well-remembered prayers are, here uttered again in the place where in childhood we used to hear them ! How beautiful and decorous the rite ; how noble the ancient words of the supplications which the priest utters, and to which generations of fresh children, and troops of bygone seniors have cried Amen...
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Thackeray and His Twentieth-century Critics: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900 ... John Charles Olmsted No preview available - 1977 |