This original, I confess, is not much to the honour of satire; but here it was nature, and that depraved
when it became an art, it bore better fruit. Only we have learnt thus much already--that scoffs and revilings are of the growth of all nations; and consequently that neither the Greek poets borrowed from other people their art of railing, neither needed the Romans to take it from them. But considering satire as a species of poetry, here the war begins amongst the critics. Scaliger, the father, will have it descend from Greece to Rome; and derives the word "satire" from Satyrus, that mixed kin...
This original, I confess, is not much to the honour of satire; but here it was nature, and that depraved
when it became an art, it bore better fruit. Only we have learnt thus much already--that scoffs and revilings are of the growth of all nations; and consequently that neither the Greek poets borrowed from other people their art of railing, neither needed the Romans to take it from them. But considering satire as a species of poetry, here the war begins amongst the critics. Scaliger, the father, will have it descend from Greece to Rome; and derives the word "satire" from Satyrus, that mixed kin...
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw
There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. 'I,' observed a well-remembered voice, when I had bowed and murmured something, 'have seen Mr. Copperfield before.' The speaker was not Dora. No; the confidential friend, Miss Murdstone! I don't think I was much astonished. To the best of my judgement, no capacity of astonishment was left in me. There was nothing worth mentioning in the m...
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw
There was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her. 'I,' observed a well-remembered voice, when I had bowed and murmured something, 'have seen Mr. Copperfield before.' The speaker was not Dora. No; the confidential friend, Miss Murdstone! I don't think I was much astonished. To the best of my judgement, no capacity of astonishment was left in me. There was nothing worth mentioning in the m...
I was much impressed by the extremely comfortable and satisfied manner in which Mr. Waterbrook delivered himself of this little word
My reflections on this theme were still in progress when dinner was announced. Mr. Waterbrook went down with Hamlet's aunt. Mr. Henry Spiker took Mrs. Waterbrook. Agnes, whom I should have liked to take myself, was given to a simpering fellow with weak legs. Uriah, Traddles, and I, as the junior part of the company, went down last, how we could. I was not so vexed at losing Agnes as I might have been, since it gave me an opportunity of making myself known to Traddles on the stairs, who g...
I was much impressed by the extremely comfortable and satisfied manner in which Mr. Waterbrook delivered himself of this little word
My reflections on this theme were still in progress when dinner was announced. Mr. Waterbrook went down with Hamlet's aunt. Mr. Henry Spiker took Mrs. Waterbrook. Agnes, whom I should have liked to take myself, was given to a simpering fellow with weak legs. Uriah, Traddles, and I, as the junior part of the company, went down last, how we could. I was not so vexed at losing Agnes as I might have been, since it gave me an opportunity of making myself known to Traddles on the stairs, who g...
I could scarcely lay claim to the name: I was so disturbed by the conviction that the letter came from Agnes.
However, I told him I was T. Copperfield, Esquire, and he believed it, and gave me the letter, which he said required an answer. I shut him out on the landing to wait for the answer, and went into my chambers again, in such a nervous state that I was fain to lay the letter down on my breakfast table, and familiarize myself with the outside of it a little, before I could resolve to break the seal. I found, when I did open it, that it was a very kind note, containing no reference to my conditio...
I could scarcely lay claim to the name: I was so disturbed by the conviction that the letter came from Agnes.
However, I told him I was T. Copperfield, Esquire, and he believed it, and gave me the letter, which he said required an answer. I shut him out on the landing to wait for the answer, and went into my chambers again, in such a nervous state that I was fain to lay the letter down on my breakfast table, and familiarize myself with the outside of it a little, before I could resolve to break the seal. I found, when I did open it, that it was a very kind note, containing no reference to my conditio...
I left the lodgings the very same hour, and this turned out a very unfortunate occurrence for me
because, living henceforward at inns, I was drained of my money very rapidly. In a fortnight I was reduced to short allowance; that is, I could allow myself only one meal a day. From the keen appetite produced by constant exercise and mountain air, acting on a youthful stomach, I soon began to suffer greatly on this slender regimen, for the single meal which I could venture to order was coffee or tea. Even this, however, was at length withdrawn; and afterwards, so long as I remained in Wales,...
I left the lodgings the very same hour, and this turned out a very unfortunate occurrence for me
because, living henceforward at inns, I was drained of my money very rapidly. In a fortnight I was reduced to short allowance; that is, I could allow myself only one meal a day. From the keen appetite produced by constant exercise and mountain air, acting on a youthful stomach, I soon began to suffer greatly on this slender regimen, for the single meal which I could venture to order was coffee or tea. Even this, however, was at length withdrawn; and afterwards, so long as I remained in Wales,...
