The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 50William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder., 1884 |
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Page 649 - Was this then the fate of that high-gifted man, " The pride of the palace, the bower and the hall, " The orator, — dramatist, — minstrel, — who ran " Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...
Page 58 - Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens, there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. " I am no novel reader; I seldom look into novels ; do not imagine that / often read novels ; it is really very well for a novel.
Page 57 - Dickens's art a thousand and a thousand times : I delight and wonder at his genius ; I recognize in it — I speak with awe and reverence — a commission from that Divine Beneficence, whose blessed task we know it will one day be to wipe every tear from every eye. Thankfully I take my share of the feast of love and kindness which this gentle and generous and charitable soul has contributed to the happiness of the world. I take and enjoy my share, and say a benediction for the meal.
Page 189 - Stranger, to whom this monument is shown, Invoke the poet's curses on Malone, Whose meddling zeal his barbarous taste displays, And daubed his tombstone as he marred his plays.
Page 653 - Death ! Who hast for thy domain this world immense. Churchyards and charnel-houses are thy haunts, And hospitals thy sumptuous palaces. And when thou wouldst be merry, thou dost choose The gaudy chamber of a dying king.
Page 56 - Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as this ? It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it a personal kindness. The last two people I heard speak of it were women ; neither knew the other, or the author, and both said, by way of criticism,
Page 57 - Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried.
Page 57 - ... myriads here and at home, who speak our common tongue ; have not you, have not I, all of us reason to be thankful to this kind friend, who soothed and charmed so many hours, brought pleasure and sweet laughter to so many homes ; made such multitudes of children happy ; endowed us with such a sweet store of gracious thoughts, fair fancies, soft sympathies, hearty enjoyments?
Page 536 - Thanks, sir ; but I go to that unknown land That chains each pilgrim fast within its soil ; By living men most shunn'd, most dreaded. Still my good master this same journey took ; He calls me ; I am content, and straight obey : Then farewell, world ! the busy scene is done : Kent liv'd most true, Kent dies most like a man.
Page 168 - And so the beggar at the door Had first abuse and then a shilling. Some public principles he had, But was no flatterer nor fretter ; He rapped his box when things were bad And said I cannot make them better.