The History of Pickwick: An Account of Its Characters, Localities, Allusions, and Illustrations. With a BibliographyChapman and Hall, 1891 - 375 psl. |
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... complete . I have now another reason for troubling you . It is this . I am extremely anxious about the Stroller's Tale , the more especially as many literary friends on whose judgment I place great reliance , think it will create ...
... complete . I have now another reason for troubling you . It is this . I am extremely anxious about the Stroller's Tale , the more especially as many literary friends on whose judgment I place great reliance , think it will create ...
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... complete as possible I shall feel personally obliged to you if you will make another drawing . It will give me great pleasure to see you , as well as the drawing , when it is complete , with this view I have asked Chapman and Hall to ...
... complete as possible I shall feel personally obliged to you if you will make another drawing . It will give me great pleasure to see you , as well as the drawing , when it is complete , with this view I have asked Chapman and Hall to ...
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... complete satisfac- tion to the proprietors of " Pickwick , " but no doubt the strain of getting ready no less than four illustrations for a number was excessive . The " copy , " too , was delayed to the last moment , and could have left ...
... complete satisfac- tion to the proprietors of " Pickwick , " but no doubt the strain of getting ready no less than four illustrations for a number was excessive . The " copy , " too , was delayed to the last moment , and could have left ...
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... complete work , the book may not have to contend against the heavy disadvantage of being prolonged beyond his original plan . " For ten months longer , then , if the author be permitted to retain his health and spirits , the ' Pickwick ...
... complete work , the book may not have to contend against the heavy disadvantage of being prolonged beyond his original plan . " For ten months longer , then , if the author be permitted to retain his health and spirits , the ' Pickwick ...
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... complete it . " 2 This impossible agreement was , however , can- celled , at a heavy sacrifice . During this busy year , the author also brought out two plays ! 3 Talfourd , an accomplished , many - sided character , was a dramatic ...
... complete it . " 2 This impossible agreement was , however , can- celled , at a heavy sacrifice . During this busy year , the author also brought out two plays ! 3 Talfourd , an accomplished , many - sided character , was a dramatic ...
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The History of Pickwick– An Account of Its Characters, Localities, Allusions ... Percy Fitzgerald Visos knygos peržiūra - 1891 |
The History of Pickwick– An Account of Its Characters, Localities, Allusions ... Percy Fitzgerald Visos knygos peržiūra - 1891 |
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admirable adventures allusion amusing appeared artist Bardell Bath Buss Buzfuz called Chapman character Charles Dickens coach coloured copy curious described Dickens's Dodson and Fogg dramatic drawings edition engraved etchings exhibited extraordinary fancy favour favourite Fleet Fleet Prison Forster furnished Furnival's Inn gentleman humour illustrations incidents interesting issued Jingle Jingle's lady later look Lord Martin Chuzzlewit Master Humphrey's Clock Meester Messrs natural Nicholas Nickleby Nickleby Oliver Twist original party person Phiz Pick Pickwick Club Pickwick Papers Pickwickian plates pleasant popular Posthumous Papers present published reader recollected Rochester Sam Weller Sam's Samivel Samuel Samuel Pickwick scene seems seen Sergeant Seymour sketches Sketches by Boz sort speech spirit Stiggins story Street style suggested Talfourd thing tion told touch town Tupman Wardle Wardle's Weller White Hart whole wick Winkle Winkle's writer young
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9 psl. - I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.
49 psl. - Thackeray) when Mr. Dickens was a very young man, and had commenced delighting the world with some charming humorous works in covers, which were coloured light green, and came out once a month, that this young man wanted an artist to illustrate his writings ; and I recollect walking up to his chambers in Furnival's Inn, with two or three drawings in my hand, which, strange to say, he did not find suitable.
106 psl. - Heads, heads — take care of your heads!' cried the loquacious stranger, as they came out under the low archway, which in those days formed the entrance to the coach-yard. 'Terrible place — dangerous work — other day — five children — mother — tall lady, eating sandwiches — forgot the arch — crash — knock — children look round — mother's head off — sandwich in her hand — no mouth to put it in — head of a family off — shocking, shocking! Looking at Whitehall, sir? —...
367 psl. - THE PICKWICK PAPERS. — On the 31st of March will be published, to be continued monthly, price One Shilling, the first number of the POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, containing a faithful record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures, and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by Boz.
21 psl. - I shall always be able to do, to my own wife. — ]I have at this moment, got Pickwick, and his friends, on the Rochester coach, and they are going on swimmingly, in company with a very different character from any I have yet described, who I flatter myself will make a decided hit...
207 psl. - THE author's object in this work, was to place before the reader a constant succession of characters and incidents; to paint them in as vivid colours as he could command; and to render them, at the same time, life-like and amusing.
148 psl. - Some time before his death, he had stamped his likeness upon a little boy. With this little boy, the only pledge of her departed exciseman, Mrs. Bardell shrunk from the world, and courted the retirement and tranquillity of Goswell Street ; and here she placed in her front parlour-window a written placard, bearing this inscription — 'Apartments furnished for a single gentleman. Inquire within.
207 psl. - In short, it was necessary — or it appeared so to the author — that every number should be, to a certain extent, complete in itself, and yet that the whole twenty numbers, when collected, should form one tolerably harmonious whole, each leading to the other by a gentle and not unnatural progress of adventure.
25 psl. - with his own venerable lips, repeated to me, the other night, a strange profane story : of a solemn clergyman who had been administering ghostly consolation to a sick person; having finished, satisfactorily as he thought, and got out of the room, he heard the sick person ejaculate, 'Well, thank God, Pickwick will be out in ten days any way!
55 psl. - ... this work, to state once again what he thought had been stated sufficiently emphatically before, namely, that its publication was interrupted by a severe domestic affliction of no ordinary kind ; that this was the sole cause of the non-appearance of the present number in the usual course; and that henceforth it will continue to be published with its accustomed regularity. However superfluous this second notice may appear to many, it is rendered necessary by various idle speculations and absurdities...