 The power of the writer is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads; and to what are we led? Breathless to watch all the crimes of Fagin, tenderly to deplore the errors of Nancy, to have for Bill...  The Lamp [ed. by T.E. Bradley]. - Pagina 180geredigeerd door - 1884Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 276 pagina’s
...murderer, and especially amused and tickled by the gambols of the skilful Dodger and his companions. The power of the writer is so amazing that the reader...tenderly to deplore the errors of Nancy, to have for Bill Sikes a kind of pity and admiration, and an absolute love for the society of the Dodger. All these... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1864 - 268 pagina’s
...murderer,and especially amused and tickled by the gambols of the skilful Dodger and his companions. The power of the writer is so amazing that the reader...tenderly to deplore the errors of Nancy, to have for Bill Sikes a kind of pity and admiration, and an absolute love for the society of the Dodger. All these... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1870 - 206 pagina’s
...murderer, and especially amused and tickled by the gambols of the skillful Dodger and his companions. The power of the writer is so amazing, that the reader...errors of Nancy, to have for Bill Sykes a kind of pity and admiration, and an absolute love for the society of the Dodger. All these heroes stepped from... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1873 - 812 pagina’s
...murderer, and especially amused and tickled by the gambols of the skilful Dodger and his companions. The power of the writer is so amazing, that the reader...errors of Nancy, to have for Bill Sykes a kind of pity and admiration, and an absolute love for the society of the Dodger. All these heroes stepped from... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pagina’s
...effective scenes. Thackeray, writing of this novel in the character of "Ikey Solomons" (qv), says :— " The power of the writer is so amazing, that the reader...must follow him whithersoever he leads : and to what «re we ledf Breathless to watch all the crime« of Fagin [qv ] , tenderly to deplore the errors of... | |
 | William Teignmouth Shore - 1904 - 124 pagina’s
...majority were welcomed, and as Thackeray—by some accused as being jealous of Dickens' fame—writes: "The power of the writer is so amazing that the reader...captive, and must follow him whithersoever he leads." In April, 1838, appeared the first monthly number of " The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby,... | |
 | Lewis Melville, Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1911 - 412 pagina’s
...murderer; and especially amused and tickled by the gambols of the Artful Dodger and his companions. • The power of the writer is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive, and must follow him wherever he leads; and to what are we led? Breathless to watch all the crimes of Fagin, tenderly to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1927 - 448 pagina’s
...murderer ; and especially amused and tickled by the gambols of the Artful Dodger and his companions. The power of the writer is so amazing, that the reader...tenderly to deplore the errors of Nancy, to have for Bill Sikes a kind of pity and admiration, and an absolute love for the society of the Dodger. All these... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2003 - 612 pagina’s
...theatrical versions of Oliver Twist even before its serialization had finished, the reader was caused: Breathless to watch all the crimes of Fagin, tenderly to deplore the errors of Nancy, to have for Bill Sikes a kind of pity and admiration, and an absolute love for the society of the Dodger . . . We had... | |
 | Sally Ledger - 2007 - 19 pagina’s
...its criminal elements. Thackeray's view was that Dickens's novel romanticised and popularised crime: The power of the writer is so amazing, that the reader...tenderly to deplore the errors of Nancy, to have for Bill Sikes a kind of pity and admiration, and an absolute love for the society of the Dodger. All these... | |
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