He has told a thousand truths in as many strange and fascinating ways ; he has given a thousand new and pleasant thoughts to millions of people ; he has never used his wit dishonestly ; he has never, in all the exuberance of his frolicsome humour, caused... A Memoir of George Cruikshank - Стр. 131авторы: Frederic George Stephens, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - Страниц: 144Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| John Camden Hotten - 1864 - Страниц: 276
...has never used his wit dishonestly ; he has never, in all the exuberance of his frolicsome nature, caused a single painful or guilty blush. How little...power of this man, and how ungrateful we are to him !" This long paper, signed •with the Greek letter Theta, is little known, but Mr. Thackeray frequently... | |
| John Camden Hotten - 1864 - Страниц: 268
...has never used his wit dishonestly ; he has never, in all the exuberance of his frolicsome nature, caused a single painful or guilty blush. How little...extraordinary power of this man, and how ungrateful are we to him ! " This long paper, signed with the Greek letter Theta, is little known ; but Mr. Thackeray... | |
| 1871 - Страниц: 730
...Diggory is sure to explode. Every man, no doubt, who loves Cruikshanfc has his Grouse in the Gun-room." " He has told a thousand truths in as many strange and...power of this man, and how ungrateful we are to him !" — Thackeray. CHUIKSHANK. An Essay on the Works of George Cruikshank, by WM Thackeray (from the... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - Страниц: 712
...take restoratives after inventing a new coiffure. By no such gentle operation of head-dressing has Cruikshank lived : time was (we are told so in print)...perhaps wonder at the high-flown tone in which we speak 6f the services and merits of an individual, whom he considers a humble scraper on steel, that is wonderfully... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - Страниц: 610
...never used his wit dishonestly ; he has never, in all the exuberance of his froliesome humor, cansed a single painful or guilty blush : how little do we...we are to him ! Here, as we are come round to the I charge of ingratitude, the startingpost from which we set out, perhaps we had better conclude. The... | |
| 1875 - Страниц: 556
...pleasant thoughts to millions of people ; he has never, in all the exuberance of his frolicsome humor, caused a single painful or guilty blush ; how little...power of this man, and how ungrateful we are to him !" " Cruikshank's humor is so good and benevolent that any man must love it." " The reader will examine... | |
| H W. Bruton - 1878 - Страниц: 42
...1840 Thackeray wrote in the Westminster Review the celebrated Essay on his works, in which he says — "He has told a thousand truths in as many strange...power of this man, and how ungrateful we are to him ! " George Cruikshank was born in 1792. His father, Isaac Cruikshank, was a caricaturist of some distinction,... | |
| Walter Hamilton - 1878 - Страниц: 86
...enthusiastically praises him, and pleads eloquently for love and admiration for his good and noble work : — " He has told a thousand truths, in as many strange...power of this man, and how ungrateful we are to him!" 41 to be looked upon with something of the reverence and all the love that we generally only accord... | |
| William Bates - 1879 - Страниц: 136
...has never used his wit dishonestly ; he has never, in all the exuberance of his frolicsome nature, caused a single painful or guilty blush. How little...power of this man, and how ungrateful we are to him ! " As an ARTIST, in his own special line, he is primm absque sec undo ; — "none but himself can... | |
| Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton - 1879 - Страниц: 532
...; he has never used his wit dishonestly ; he has never, in the exuberance of his frolicsome humor, caused a single painful or guilty blush ; how little...power of this man, and how ungrateful we are to him ! . . . . Look at one of Mr. Cruikshank's works, and we pronounce him an excellent humorist Look at... | |
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