Word: thackeray
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Prof. John Nichol is preparing a volume of "Essays on English Literature," on, among others, Carlyle, Thackeray, Dickens, Macaulay, Tennynyson and Sidney Dobell...
...London Times says : "We have Wilkie Collins for plots, Mr. Black for sunsets, Mr. Howells and Mr. James for unrivalled painters in miniature, and Ouida for emotions, but we have not a novelist equal to those of the days of Thackeray and George Eliot...
...think it is Thackeray who, in one of his most charming pictures of real life, says he can't but accept the world as he finds it, including a rope's end, as long as it is in fashion. We know that Thackeray was rather eccentric and we surely need no other evidence of his individuality of character than the expression of this very sentiment. For most people admire only the things that belong to antiquity, fancying that nothing can be really good until it has been dead and buried a hundred years...
...Thackeray says that when any one extends as a greeting, two or three fingers of the hand only, he feels impelled to offer only one in return...
...that he (Mr. B.) could feel for the poor; Mr. Gl-dst-ne declared that Dizzy must be pensioned; his lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called for charity, though not for cash, and that, at any rate, he had shown up Thackeray to the world; whereupon Mr. F-lds called upon his lordship to retract the insult to that great novelist, saying that to slander his (F.'s) friend was to slander him (F.). The discussion was finally ended by the chairman's remarking that he wanted the money for building...