The Dickensian, Volume 9Bertram Waldrom Matz Dickens Fellowship, 1913 |
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40 Illustrations Ainsworth artist audience Avenue B. W. Matz Barnaby Rudge Bay Street South Bleak House Branch BROWN characters Charles Dickens Christmas Church City Cuming Walters Datchery David Copperfield December delightful Dickens Fellowship Dickens lived DICKENS MEETINGS Dickens's Dickensian DICKENSIANA MONTH dinner Dombey Dombey and Son Ealing edition Edwin Drood February Forster gave George given Green Hall HATFIELD heart held honour Hotel Hull humour Illustrations by PHIZ interesting J. G. JEFFREY John ladies lecture letter Little Dorrit London Macready Martin Chuzzlewit Master Messrs Micawber Miss never Nicholas Nickleby novelist novels Old Curiosity Old Curiosity Shop Oliver Twist Perugini PHIZ Pickwick Papers portrait present President programme published readers recital referred Road scenes School Secretary Sketches song story Street Sydney T. W. Tyrrell Theatre TRIBUTES TO CHARLES volume WALTER DEXTER William writing
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Page 228 - Oh ! take me to your hospitable dome ! Keen blows the wind, and piercing is the cold ! Short is my passage to the friendly tomb, For I am poor and miserably old.
Page 228 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see : And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow, and of misery.
Page 228 - PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door. Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, Oh ! give relief and heaven will bless your store.
Page 150 - Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past; For the stateliest building man can raise, Is the Ivy's food at last. Creeping on where time has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green.
Page 228 - Yon house, erected on the rising ground, With tempting aspect drew me from my road; For Plenty there a residence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor!
Page 97 - Cause I'ma married man, Samivel, 'cause I'ma married man. Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said ven he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o
Page 230 - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
Page 67 - I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. I believe that she, and every beautiful object in external nature, claims some sympathy in the breast of the poorest man who breaks his scanty loaf of daily bread.
Page 61 - A brilliant morning shines on the old city. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with a lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees waving in the balmy air. Changes of glorious light from moving boughs, songs of birds, scents from gardens, woods, and fields — or, rather, from the one great garden of the whole cultivated island in its yielding time — penetrate into the Cathedral, subdue its earthy odour, and preach the Resurrection and the Life.
Page 200 - Macready good by, and bring his wife away. It will be a very hard parting. You will see and know him of course. We gave him a splendid dinner last Saturday at Richmond, whereat I presided with my accustomed grace. He is one of the noblest fellows in the world, and I would give a great deal that you and I should sit beside each other to see him play Virginius, Lear, or Werner, which I take to be, every way, the greatest piece of exquisite perfection that his lofty art is capable of attaining. His...