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laurence sterne volume 2
- Author: percy hetherington fitzgerald
- Genre: History
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1896 edition by The Grolier Society, London.
life of james boswell of auchinleck with an account of his sayings doings an
- Author: percy hetherington fitzgerald
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
laurence sterne volume 1
- Author: percy hetherington fitzgerald
- Genre: Authors
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1896 edition by The Grolier Society, London.
john forster
- Author: percy hetherington fitzgerald
- Genre: Fishes
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and delighted with everything. His old friend and 2 class fellow, Whiteside, gave him a dinner to which I ; attended him, where was the late Dr. Lloyd, the I Provost of the College, a learned man, whose works i on " Optics" are well known. It was pleasant to note how Forster, like his prototype, the redoubt- I able Doctor, here " talked for ostentation." " I knew, sir," he might say, " that I was expected to talk, to talk suitably to my position as a distinguished visitor." And so he did. It was an excellent lesson in conversation to note how he took the lead" laid down the law," while poor Whiteside flourished away in a torrent of words, and the placid Lloyd more adroitly strove occasionally to " get in." But Forster held his way with well-rounded periods, and seemed to enjoy entangling his old friend in the consequences of some exuberant exaggeration. " My dear Whiteside, how can you say so ? Do you not see that by saying such a thing you give yourself away ?" etc. Forster, however, more than redeemed himself when he issued his well-known Life of Dickens, a work that was a perfect delight to the world and to his friends. For here is the proper lightness of touch. The complete familiarity with every detail of the course of the man of whose life his had been a portion, and the quiet air of authority which he could assume in consequence, gave the work an attraction that was beyond dispute. There have been, it is said, some fifteen or sixteen official Lives issued since the writer's death ; but all these are written " from outside" as it were, and it is extraordinary what a different man each presents. But hardly sufficient credit has been given to him for the finished style which only a true and well trained critic could have brought, the easy touch, the appropriate treatment of t...
principles of comedy and dramatic effect
- Author: percy hetherington fitzgerald
- Genre: Addresses, essays, lectures
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org
Pickwickian Studies
- Author: percy hetherington fitzgerald
- Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.