United States or Denmark ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Queerface was evidently too much delighted with the ornament on his pate to think of abandoning it, and the more vehement were the signs Mr Wilkie made the tighter did he haul it down over his ears. As he sat up in a big chair, with the coloured dressing-gown over his shoulders, and the wig hanging down on each side of his head, Paddy declared that he looked exactly like a judge on the bench.
I may say so without blushing, for it is not by me. It was done by Wilkie Collins." Here is another short note, not a little gratifying to me personally, but not without interest of a larger kind to the reader: "Tuesday, 15th November, 1859. "MY DEAR TROLLOPE, I write this hasty word, just as the post leaves, to ask you this question, which this moment occurs to me.
"Besides, I had only suspicions," he said, "suspicions based, it is true, upon strange and alarming circumstances. I am a man, that is to say, I am liable to error. In the kingdom of science it would be unpardonable temerity on my part to affirm " "To affirm what?" interrupted M. Wilkie. The physician did not seem to hear him, but continued in the same dogmatic tone.
Now he would be a somebody in the world. He felt that he had grown a head taller, and Heaven only knows with what disdain poor Costard and Serpillon would have been received had they chanced to present themselves at that moment. It is needless to say that Wilkie dressed with infinite care on the following morning, no doubt in the hope of making a conquest of the marquis at first sight.
In the rooms devoted to English artists, there are many of the finest works of West, Reynolds, Hogarth and Wilkie. We spent a day in visiting the lungs of London, as the two grand parks have been called. From the Strand through the Regent Circus, the centre of the fashionable part of the city, we passed to Piccadilly, culling on our way to see our old friends, the Iowas.
For the majority of us Carthusians, literature was bounded on the north by Whyte Melville, on the south by Hawley Smart, on the east by the former, and on the west by the latter. Little Brown used to read Harrison Ainsworth, Wilkie Collins, and other writers whom we, had we assayed them, would have dismissed as 'deep. It has been said by Mr.
He said that, if I would write the plot and do the female characters, he would manage the men and politics. I asked if he wanted the old Wilkie Collins idea of a plot with a hundred threads drawn into one woof, or did he prefer modern nothingness, a shred of a story attached to unending analysis and the infinitely little commented upon with elaborate and pretentious humour. He scorned the latter.
Some months after these occurrences Mr. Wilkie removed to Montreal, where he soon became permanently established, and, as he was always fond of politics, he was in a short time recognised as one of the leaders of the liberal party. When the reaction consequent on the famous "Pacific Scandal" set in, Mr.
So don't treat with any one." "Oh, no! You may rest assured I won't." "I should be quieter in mind if I had your promise in writing." Without a word, Wilkie darted to a table, and wrote a short contract by which he bound himself to give M. Ferdinand de Coralth one-half of the inheritance which the aforesaid Coralth might prove him to be entitled to.
Take a Flemish kitchen full of good fellows from Teniers; add a fireside group from Wilkie; throw in a naval sketch from Cruickshank; and then stick a short pipe into every mother's son's mouth, and you have the smoking scene at the galley of the Neversink. Not a few were politicians; and, as there were some thoughts of a war with England at the time, their discussions waxed warm.
Word Of The Day