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Some adaptation or other of Dickens seems to have been always the standing dish. The old Ipswich Theatre is certainly an interesting one, and Garrick and Boz are names to conjure with. VI. Who was Pott? There have been abundant speculations as to the originals of the Pickwickian characters some Utopian enough, but I do not think that any have been offered in the case of Mr.
In contrast with the Pickwickian method of comic rambles in search of human "curios," Dickens introduced some darker effects and persons of a more or less sensational kind.
'Do you think my dear nieces pretty? whispered their affectionate aunt to Mr. Tupman. 'I should, if their aunt wasn't here, replied the ready Pickwickian, with a passionate glance. 'Oh, you naughty man but really, if their complexions were a little better, don't you think they would be nice-looking girls by candlelight? 'Yes; I think they would, said Mr. Tupman, with an air of indifference.
But let us at least make up our minds as to what we desire, and not try to arrive at a disgusting compromise. Our way is to persecute genius living and to crown it dead. Can we not make a sincere attempt to recognise it when it is among us, to look out for it, to encourage it, instead of acting in the spirit of Pickwickian caution, and when there are two mobs, to shout with the largest?
Meagre as is the reference, it is, nevertheless, retained in the memory, and the inn proclaimed a Pickwickian one with as much satisfaction as if it had been the scene of many an incident such as connect others with the book. Unfortunately there are only one or two landmarks remaining to show that it ever existed.
He had alluded to the honourable gentleman. 'Mr. BLOTTON would only say then, that he repelled the hon. gent.'s false and scurrilous accusation, with profound contempt. 'Mr. A. SNODGRASS rose to order. He threw himself upon the chair. 'The CHAIRMAN was quite sure the hon. Pickwickian would withdraw the expression he had just made use of. 'Mr.
Germany disclaimed any intention to make "permanent" acquisitions in Venezuela but contended for its right to make "temporary" ones. Now the world had already seen "temporary" acquisitions made in China, and it was a matter of common knowledge that this convenient word was often to be interpreted in a Pickwickian sense.
So, the development and elaboration of these modern principles of civic liberty and this elaboration has taken on formidable dimensions under the hand of the German Intellectuals has uniformly run out into Pickwickian convolutions, greatly suggestive of a lost soul seeking a place to rest.
The passages must speak for themselves; they are children sent into the world helpless infants like those Pickwickian "expletives, let loose upon society." Among these unexplained things were "my Prooshan Blue" and "Old Nobs." Sir Walter, with real Pickwickian sagacity, points to a true explanation which may be applied in other cases.
It is only within narrow limits, and then only in a Pickwickian sense, that honesty is the best policy. As seen from the point of view of life under modern civilized conditions in an enlightened community of the Western culture, the primitive, ante-predatory savage, whose character it has been attempted to trace in outline above, was not a great success.
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