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But, for my part, I don't think the Littlepages are a bit better than the Newcomes, though I won't liken them to some I could name at Ravensnest; but I don't think they are any better than you, yourself; and why should they ask so much more of the law than other folks?" "I am not aware that they do ask more of the law than others; and, if they do, I'm sure they obtain less.
To Anne were given passages of "Modern Painters" as examples of style, and Lamartine's "Jocelyn" for French pronunciation. I fear that Aunt Mary's appreciation of it was more imaginary than real. "The Newcomes" fell to my lot, being easier than poetry, and gave rise to many a debate about its superiority or inferiority to Thackeray's other works.
"Tells his tale" means of course "counts his sheep," not "tells a story." Barnes ... Falstaff ... Barabbases ... Hazlitt ... Northcote. Colonel Newcome, the great character in Thackeray's The Newcomes . Fred Bayham and Barnes Newcome are persons in the same story. One of the best essays on Falstaff is the one printed in the first series of Mr.
"What do I care for Barnes Newcome, and his confounded affairs and family? I never want to see him again, but in the light of a banker, when I go to the City, where he keeps my account. I say, I have nothing to do with him, or all the Newcomes under the sun. Why, one of them is a painter, and will paint my dog, Ratcatcher, by Jove! or my horse, or my groom, if I give him the order.
Pendennis is a profound moral study, and the most powerful arraignment of well-meaning selfishness in our literature, not even excepting George Eliot's Romola, which it suggests. Two other novels, The Newcomes and The Virginians , complete the list of Thackeray's great works of fiction.
The constabulary, too, had word of it worse luck and were on their mettle to break up the meeting, as the sportsmen of Portsmouth and its neighbourhood were all on their mettle to attend it. This, explained the child in her thin clear voice, I can hear it now discoursing its sad, its infinitely weary wisdom to us two Johnny Newcomes, this was the reason why the fair had closed early.
It is envy. Did that pew belong to the Newcomes, for instance, no one would think anything of it." "Nevertheless, the Newcomes would make themselves ridiculous by sitting in a pew that was distinguished from those of their neighbours. The absurdity of the contrast would strike every one." "And it is precisely because the absurdity does not exist in your case, that your seat is envied.
Perhaps I shall catch a sight of him in London; as also of old Thackeray who, Donne writes me word, came suddenly on him in Pall Mall the other day: while all the while people supposed The Newcomes were being indited at Rome or Naples. If ever you live in England you must live here at Bath. It really is a splendid City in a lovely, even a noble, Country. Did you ever see it?
Scandals were dug up respecting her ladyship, so old that one would have thought them forgotten these forty years, so old that they happened before most of the Newcomes now extant were born, and surely therefore are out of the province of this contemporary biography.
Thackeray's own best accomplished work from Vanity Fair itself through Pendennis and Esmond to The Newcomes ; the brilliant centre of Dickens's work in David Copperfield stand at the head and have been already noticed by anticipation or implication, while Lever had almost completed the first division of his work, which began with Harry Lorrequer as early as the year of Pickwick.
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