The Dickensian, Volume 21Bertram Waldrom Matz Dickens Fellowship, 1925 |
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2nd instalment Annual appeared arranged Arthur attended B. W. Matz Branch called Chapter character Charles Dickens Christmas Church City close collection complete continued Council David death delightful Dexter Dickens Fellowship Dickens House Dickens's Dickensian Doughty Street Drood Edition Edwin English fact February feel friends gave George George Cruikshank give given Green Hall hand held illustrated interesting January Jasper John July June Lady lecture letter Library literary lived London look Lord March meeting memory Miss never novelist November October opening original Party Pickwick picture present President printed published Recital reference Road scene School Secretary seems Sketches story successful taken things took volume Walter write written wrote
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Page 174 - The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion — Death! Oh thank GOD, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, of Immortality! And look upon us, angels of young children, with regards not quite estranged, when the swift river bears us to the ocean!
Page 119 - Rich men furnished with ability, Living peaceably in their habitations: All these were honoured in their generations, And were the glory of their times.
Page 123 - CLUB,' the members of which were to go out shooting, fishing, and so forth, and getting themselves into difficulties through their want of dexterity, would be the best means of introducing these. I objected, on consideration, that although born and partly bred in the country I was no great sportsman, except in regard...
Page 34 - So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Page 34 - Watch ye therefore ; for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning ; lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you, I say unto all Watch.
Page 17 - ACADEMY anything that then indicated he would hereafter become a literary celebrity ; but perhaps he was too young then. He usually held his head more erect than lads ordinarily do, and there was a general smartness about him.
Page 176 - My work was to cover the pots of paste-blacking; first with a piece of oilpaper, and then with a piece of blue paper; to tie them round with a string ; and then to clip the paper close and neat, all round, until it looked as smart as a pot of ointment from an apothecary's shop.
Page 16 - WE went to look at it, only this last Midsummer, and found that the Railway had cut it up root and branch. A great trunk-line had swallowed the playground, sliced away the schoolroom, and pared off the corner of the house; which, thus curtailed of its proportions, presented itself, in a green stage of stucco, pro file wise, towards the road, like a forlorn flat-iron without a handle, standing on end.
Page 94 - Gie him strong drink, until he wink, That's sinking in despair; An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, That's prest wi' grief an' care; There let him bouse, an' deep carouse, Wf bumoers flowing o'er, Till he forgets his loves or debts, An
Page 32 - You know that you have never been hampered with religious forms of restraint, and that with mere unmeaning forms I have no sympathy. But I most strongly and affectionately impress upon you the priceless value of the New Testament, and the study of that book as the one unfailing guide in life. Deeply respecting it, and bowing down before the character of our Saviour, as separated from the vain constructions and inventions of men, you cannot go very wrong, and will always preserve at heart a true spirit...