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Title: Studies in English literature. Being typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ... with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study ..
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892 St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo Wordsworth Collection
Subjects: English literature English literature
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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oof, and a fine flourish by way of Finisat the storys end. The last corrections ? I say those last cor-rections seem never to be finished. A plague upon the weeds ! 330Every day, when I walk in my own little literary garden-plot, Ispy some, and should like to have a spud* and root them out.Those idle words, neighbor, are past remedy. That turning Literary Analysis.—304-326. The pupil should name the books in whichthe several characters mentioned in this paragraph occur. 544 THACKERAY. back to the old pages produces anything but elation of mind.Would you not pay a pretty fine to be able to cancel some of 335them ? Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages ! Oh, thecares, the enmii, the squabbles, the repetitions, the old conver-sations over and over again But now and again a kindthought is recalled, and now and again a dear memory. Yeta few chapters more, and then the last: after which, behold 340Finis itself come to an end, and the Infinite begun. XXXVII. CHARLES DICKENS. 1812-1869.
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CHARACTERIZATION BY E. P. WHIPPLE. I. Dickens, as a novelist and prose poet, is to be classed in thefront rank of the noble company to which he belongs. He hasrevived the novel of genuine practical life, as it existed in the 35 ^^6 DICKENS. works of Fielding, Smollett, and Goldsmith ; but, at the sametime, has given to his materials an individual coloring and ex-pression peculiarly his own. His characters, like those of hisgreat examplars, constitute a world of their own, whose truth tonature every reader instinctively recognizes in connection withtheir truth to Dickens. Fielding delineates with more exquisiteart, standing more as the spectator of his personages, and com-menting on their actions with an ironical humor and a seeminginnocence of insight which pierces not only into, but through,their very nature, laying bare their inmost unconscious springsof action, and in every instance indicating that he understandsthem better than they understand themselves. It is this per-fection of

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