 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 406 pages
...occasion I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...be despised ; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor has said, if I could, in evil things, that soul... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - Novelists, English - 1872 - 502 pages
...occasion I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...be despised ; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor has said, if I could, in evil things that soul... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1873 - 812 pages
...occasion I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...be despised ; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor has said, if I could, in evil things, that soul... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - Authors, English - 1873 - 90 pages
...occasion, I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...to be despised; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor has said, if I could, in evil things, that soul... | |
 | Biography - 1879 - 244 pages
...occasion I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...be despised ; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor has said, if I could, in evil things, that soul... | |
 | Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...and happy to have led to such a result." And again, in reviewing his past efforts, he once said, " I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...be despised ; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons." But it is not for laughter only that we prize our author ; shall we not bless him also... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 574 pages
...occasion I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...to be despised; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor has said, if I could, in evil things, that soul... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1905 - 410 pages
...Thelf-interetht after all, but thomething very different." — Hard Times — Mr. Sleary. Dec. 16. — " I felt that the world was not utterly to be despised ; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. "—Speech at Edinburgh. Dec. 17. — " Show me the man who says anything against women,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, Frederic George Kitton - English drama - 1908 - 790 pages
...occasion I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...to be despised; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor has said, if I could, in evil things, that soul... | |
 | 1915 - 102 pages
...occasion I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt an earnest and humble desire, and shall do...cheerfulness. I felt that the world was not utterly to be despired; that it was worthy of living in for many reasons. I was anxious to find, as the Professor... | |
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... and that I had never known them apart from you. " It is a difficult thing for a man to speak of himself or of his works. But perhaps on this occasion I may, without impropriety, venture to say a word on the spirit in which mine were conceived. I felt... 
