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dickens earlier few immense production promote rank second side
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. George Saintsbury
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One of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever, one of the guys on the very top table of all, was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen, of course, Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare. Douglas Adams
dickens father headed mother
My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say 'We're going to the workhouse'. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel. Simon Schama
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I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. Goldwin Smith
dickens shot
Bo just shot the dickens out of it.
dickens explain good reader somewhere terms
The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.
dickens felt hated spoke worked
As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice. Claire Tomalin
dickens longer throw time
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw. Dazzy Vance
dickens great multiple
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
greatness
There is greatness in everyone. Charlie Chaplin
greatness quality individual
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. Charles Sumner
greatness
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. Charles de Gaulle
greatness france
France cannot be France without greatness.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
multiple-choice choices tests
When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it. Demetri Martin
multiple revise watching
Watching big-name high-techs revise down multiple times is very discouraging,
multiple zone
We're going to play a lot of man-to-man coverage. We're also going to play some zone as well. We just want to give him multiple looks.
multiple vision
When we first started, we went through multiple ideas. We thought we had a vision of what we wanted to do. Jonathan Lee
multiple tv
To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense. Michiel Huisman
multiple powerful swings
(Mitchell) is very athletic, so she can play multiple positions. She swings a powerful bat.
multiple record sources verify
Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.
multiple strong
I thought that we made some strong swims. There were multiple (personal-best times).
multiple people provide roads willing
I think we need to provide people with multiple possibilities, multiple roads to the same end. If this is what you're willing to do, I'll tell you what you can get out of it.