Edmund Yates: His Recollections and Experiences, Volume 1R. Bentley & son, 1884 |
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Page 94 - We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die!
Page iii - Myself not least, but honour'd of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 125 - I wish you and the dear girls could have seen the people look at me in the street ; or heard them ask me, as I hurried to the hotel after reading last night, to " do me the honour to shake hands, Misther Dickens, and God bless you, sir ; not ounly for the light you've been to me this night, but for the light you've been in mee house, sir (and God love your face), this many a year.
Page 123 - The state thus described showed plainly that C. D. had been on the brink of an attack of paralysis of his left side, and possibly of apoplexy.
Page 14 - and I don't remember that out of that club I have ever exchanged six words with you. Allow me to inform you that the talk which you have heard there is not intended for newspaper remark ; and to beg — as I have a right to do — that you will refrain from printing comments upon my private conversations ; that you will forego discussions, however blundering, upon my private affairs ; and that you will henceforth please to consider any question of my personal truth and sincerity as quite out of...
Page 222 - I was always an anti-Hillite, acknowledging, indeed, the great thing which Sir Rowland Hill had done for the country, but believing him to be entirely unfit to manage men or to arrange labour. It was a pleasure to me to differ from him on all occasions ; — and looking back now, I think that in all such differences I was right.
Page 124 - How the youth of colleges, and the old men of business in the town, seem equally unable to get near enough to me when they cheer me away at night. How common people and gentlefolks will stop me in the streets and say : " Mr. Dickens, will you let me touch the hand that has filled my home with so many friends ? " And if you saw the mothers, and fathers, and sisters, and brothers in mourning, who invariably come to "Little Dombey...
Page 11 - ... is forced, his wit biting, his pride easily touched — but his appearance is invariably that of the cool, suave, well-bred gentleman, who, whatever may be rankling within, suffers no surface display of his emotion. "HIS SUCCESS, " Commencing with ' Vanity Fair,' culminated with his 'Lectures on the English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century,' which were attended by all the court and fashion of London.
Page 14 - I am obliged to take notice of articles which I consider to be not offensive and unfriendly merely, but slanderous and untrue. We meet at a Club, where, before you were born I believe, I and other gentlemen have been in the habit of talking without any idea that our conversation would supply paragraphs for professional vendors of " Literary Talk "; and I don't remember that out of that Club I have ever exchanged six words with you. Allow me to inform you that the talk which you have heard there is...
Page 11 - Mr. Thackeray is forty-six years old, though from the silvery whiteness of his hair he appears somewhat older. He is very tall, standing upwards of six feet two inches ; and as he walks erect, his height makes him conspicuous in every assembly. His face is bloodless, and not particularly expressive, but remarkable for the fracture of the bridge of the nose, the result of an accident in youth. He wears a small gray whisker, but otherwise is clean shaven.