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The Great American Museum, the down-town scenery and aspects at large, and even the up-town improvements on them, as then flourishing? why, they must have been for the most part of the last meanness: the Barnum picture above all ignoble and awful, its blatant face or frame stuck about with innumerable flags that waved, poor vulgar-sized ensigns, over spurious relics and catchpenny monsters in effigy, to say nothing of the promise within of the still more monstrous and abnormal living from the total impression of which things we plucked somehow the flower of the ideal.
They couldn't act the play without me, and but for my father I should from the first have refused to act in it at all. I do not think that they manage wisely; it is a mere snatch at a bit of profit by a way of catchpenny venture, to secure which they are running the risk of injuring me more ways than one, and through me their own interests.
I have never yet thought of a title!" "There is a great deal in a good title. As a novel reader, I know that by experience." MR. SQUILLS. "Certainly; there is not a catchpenny in the world but what goes down, if the title be apt and seductive.
The volumes are so crammed with interesting and important matter that to discuss them in one article is impossible. But before concluding these remarks we must say that the good fortune which attended Tennyson during his life did not end with his death. Fortunate, indeed, is the famous man who escapes the catchpenny biographer.
In the course of time, however, by assuming to be a seventh son, he availed himself of the credulity and ignorance of the people, and soon added a pretended insight into futurity to his powers of interpreting Pastorini, and all the catchpenny trash of the kind which then circulated among the people.
"If our first friend is not our first dupe, we shall never find a second," he made answer to Claparon, on the day when his catchpenny banker reproached him for the trick; and he flung him away like a wornout instrument. Monsieur Lebas and Claparon went out together. "I shall pull through," said Birotteau to himself.
They made a strong impression at the time they were written, and many are still read as much as ever, by a generation born after his death. Their popularity is not of the catchpenny sort; thoughtful people read them, as well as the great drove of the undiscriminating. For they are the product of thought: they show workmanship; they have quality; they are carefully made.
He could not disregard the opportunity; he advanced upon her. But two beseeching hands fended him off. "No ... no. Please ... oh, PLEASE, don't!" This was no catchpenny coquetry; it was a genuine dread of undue familiarity. A kindred trait in Mahony's own nature rose to meet it. "Certainly not, if it is disagreeable to you. Shall we shake hands instead?"
I promised my father that I would set about my work to-morrow; and pacified him by repeating that this hasty publication, which had just been advertised, must be a catchpenny, and that it would serve only to stimulate instead of satisfying the public curiosity.
When so darkly esoteric a body begins to issue an extremely catchpenny 'organ, with advertisements of theosophic 'developers, magic mirrors, and mesmeric discs, and also advertises large copies of the dread symbol of the Order, 'suitable for framing, at five shillings plain and seven and sixpence coloured, it is, of course, impossible to take it seriously, except in view of a police-court process, and one is evidently in the hands of very poor bunglers indeed.
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