Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...article in the Cornell Review attempts to draw a comparison between "Aurora Leigh" and "Pendennis." The title of the article is "Aurora Leigh as the Metrical and Feminine Complement to Thackeray's Pendennis." We are obliged to acknowledge that the writer of the piece has a more vivid imagination than we can pretend to. The comparison is ingenious, but the case is not made out. Both stories follow out the development of a principal character, as many other novels and poems do. Beyond this we fail to see any great similarity...
...which I shall be happy to communicate to any worthy person. The first is for the killing of a venerable gentleman, high in position, universally respected and disliked. The other has in view the murder of a flute-player. The first is, I fear (like Dickens's caricature of Leigh Hunt), somewhat disfigured by vindictiveness and personal feeling; the second, I make bold to say, is a very dainty piece of work...
...Leigh request...
...Miss Amy Leigh to Mr. John...
...interest in the school lies in the illustrious names on its roll (names such as Bishop Middleton and Bishop Stillingfleet, Camden, Markland, and Richardson; the first of England's novelists) and in stories of Charles Lamb and Coleridge, "the inspired charity-boy," pacing the cloisters together, or Leigh Hunt withstanding some "little tyrant," in spite of blows and cuffs so painful to his sensitive nature. These last three have left us interesting accounts of the time when they were blue-coat boys, and of their savage old teacher, Mr. Bowyer, who has been immortalized by a bon-mot of Coleridge...