The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 6, Part 2W. B. Kelly, 1856 - Ireland |
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Page 85
... never said that Scott was not the author of the Waverleys . The assertion would have merited nought but ridicule . I had reason then for believing , and have certain evidence now , to feel convinced , that many of the Waverley Novels ...
... never said that Scott was not the author of the Waverleys . The assertion would have merited nought but ridicule . I had reason then for believing , and have certain evidence now , to feel convinced , that many of the Waverley Novels ...
Page 98
... never outsteps the boundary of nature ; he carries his plot through to the end , and never attempts to gain our sympathy by detailing the loves of a burglar and a strumpet ; he never makes the chief interest of a portion of his plot ...
... never outsteps the boundary of nature ; he carries his plot through to the end , and never attempts to gain our sympathy by detailing the loves of a burglar and a strumpet ; he never makes the chief interest of a portion of his plot ...
Page 107
... never forgotten , never killed off before his time ; -he is never like the brass nail in the back of the bellows - for ornament . But of which of Dickens ' stories can this be said ? In not a few of Thackeray's novels can it be declared ...
... never forgotten , never killed off before his time ; -he is never like the brass nail in the back of the bellows - for ornament . But of which of Dickens ' stories can this be said ? In not a few of Thackeray's novels can it be declared ...
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