 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1906 - 314 sider
...Strictly, there is no such novel as " Nicholas Nickleby." There is no such novel as " Our Mutual Friend." They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed...a given proportion of brilliant and of bad stuff. You can say, according to your opinions, " the Crummies part is perfect," or " the Boffins are a mistake,"... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1906 - 322 sider
...Strictly, there is no such novel as " Nicholas Nickleby." There is no such novel as " Our Mutual Friend." They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed...a given proportion of brilliant and of bad stuff. You can say, according to your opinions, " the Crummies part is perfect," or " the Boffins are a mistake,"... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1906 - 318 sider
...Mutual Friend." They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed substance called Dickens—a substance of which any given length will be certain...a given proportion of brilliant and of bad stuff. You can say, according to your opinions, " the Crummies part is perfect," or " the Boffins are a mistake,"... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1906 - 316 sider
...Strictly, there is no such novel as " Nicholas Nickleby." There is no such novel as " Our Mutual Friend?' They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed substance called Dickens—a substance of which any given length will be certain to contain a given proportion of brilliant... | |
 | 1907 - 832 sider
...Strictly, there is no such novel as "Nicholas Nickleby. " There is no such novel as "Our Mutual Friend." They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed...Dickens — a substance of which any given length will contain a given proportion of brilliant and of bad stuff. This, I say, seems to me fine and true. But,... | |
 | 1909 - 1234 sider
...sometimes by groups, oftener by episodes, but never by individual novels. These, as has been well said, are •'simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed...a given proportion of brilliant and of bad stuff." The units of Dickens, the primary elements, are not the stories, but the characters who affect the... | |
 | 1911 - 862 sider
...much to us all. Of course, if Pickwick had not raised Dickens from comparative obscurity, srmething else would; but it does not detract from the interest...introduce us to a doctor of fiction, and in this we arc not to be disappointed. In fact, Mr. Pickwick himself, with the assistance of Mr. Samuel Weller,... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1915 - 422 sider
...characters, sometimes in groups, oftener in episodes, but never by novels." He has also remarked, " They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed...certain to contain a given proportion of brilliant and bad stuff." If this be true Esther Summerson may be classed as the " brilliant stuff." As a character... | |
 | David Rampton - 1984 - 252 sider
...chunk of Nabokov, and this is what it tells us about him.' (Compare Chesterton on Dickens's novels: "They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and...contain a given proportion of brilliant and of bad stuff.')52 Even its formal aspects cry out, not nouveau romancier or American fabulator, but 'Nabokov'.... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 2000 - 524 sider
...Strictly, there is no such novel as Nicholas Nickleby. There is no such novel as Our Mutual Friend. They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed...a given proportion of brilliant and of bad stuff. You can say, according to your opinions, 'the Crummies part is perfect', or 'the Boffins are a mistake',... | |
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They are simply lengths cut from the flowing and mixed substance called Dickens — a substance of which any given length will be certain to contain a given proportion of brilliant and of bad stuff. 
