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Identifier: penphotographsof01fiel (find matches)
Title: Pen photographs of Charles Dickens's readings
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Field, Kate, 1838-1896
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 British Novelists, English Oral reading
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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up his nose at thecows-liver broth, after his good master had asked a bless-ing on it. This was told her in the London newspapers,— not by Mr. Squeers, for he is too kind and too good toset anybody against anybody. Mobbss mother-in-law issorry to find Mobbs is discontented, which is sinful andhorrid, and hopes Mr. Squeers will flog him into a hap-pier state of mind. With this view she has also stoppedhis halfpenny a week pocket-money, and given a double-bladed knife with a corkscrew in it, which she hadbrought on purpose for him, to the missionaries. A sulkystate of feebng wont do. Cheerfulness and contentmentmust be kept up. Mobbs, come to me ! What varnishis to an oil-painting, Dickenss delivery is to this letter,wherein satire and humor share equal honors ; and if inSqueerss first interviews with Nickleby, Dickens hadintroduced the following speech wherein the proprietorof Dotheboys Hall attains a more characteristic latitudethan on any other occasion, he would have drawn, if not
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NICHOLAS AND SMIKE. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY AT THE YORKSHIRE SCHOOL. 59 a full-length, at least a three-quarters portrait of hisdevilish hero. Measles, rheumatics, whooping-cough, fevers, agues,and lumbagers, said JNIr. Squeers, is all philosophy to-gether, thats what it is. The heavenly bodies is phi-losophy, and the earthly bodies is philosophy. If there sa screw loose in a heavenly body, thats philosophy, andif theres a screw loose in a earthly body, thats philos-ophy too; or it may be that sometimes there s a littlemetaphysics in it, but thats not often. Philosophy sthe chap for me. If a parent asks a question in theclassical, commercial, or mathematical line, says I, grave-ly. Why, sir, in the first place, are you a philosopher ? —No, Mr. Squeers, he says, I aint. Then, sir, says I, I amsorry for you, for I sha nt be able to explain it. Natu-rally the parent goes away and wishes he was a philoso-pher, and, equally naturally, thinks I m one. The remaining scenes of Mr. and Mrs. Squeer

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Dickens__Charles__1812_1870
  • booksubject:British
  • booksubject:Novelists__English
  • booksubject:Oral_reading
  • bookpublisher:Boston__J__R__Osgood_and_company
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