 | Charles Dickens - 1838 - 300 ページ
...NEW-YORK: WM. H. COLTER, 104 BEEKMAN-STREET. 2-14 PREFACE. THE author's object in this work, was to plase before the reader a constant succession of characters...others in the outset of the undertaking, he adopted th. machinery of the club, which was suggested as that best adapted to his purpose : but, finding that... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1840 - 720 ページ
...Sir, Most faithfully and sincerely yours, i CHARLES DICKENS. 48, DOOGBTY STREET, , SXPTEUXR 27, 1837. PREFACE. THE author's object in this work, was to...of characters and incidents ; to paint them in as mid colours as he could command ; and to render them, at the same time, life-like and amusing. Deferring... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1849 - 746 ページ
...faithfully and sincerely yours, CHARLES DICKEN& 48 DOUGHTY STREET, Su ITEM HE it 27, I837. PREFACE. TRE author's object in this work, was to place before...of the undertaking, he adopted the machinery of the cluh, which was suggested as that best adapted to his purpose : but, finding that it tended rather... | |
 | R. A. Hammond - 1871 - 450 ページ
...continuous tale, as we have elsewhere more fully explained. The original design, as the author tells us, was " to place before the reader a constant succession...characters and incidents ; to paint them in as vivid colors as he could command ; and to render them, at the same time, life-like and amusing."The dedication... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1899 - 420 ページ
...expression *. delicate .nsitive hile PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION r. -.. :.. ' n:. r .. -.-:, : '... 'I THE author's object in this work, was to place before...them in as vivid colours as he could command; and to redder them, at the same time, life-like and amusing.-. ' , .,' Deferring to the judgment of others... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1908 - 524 ページ
...contributions to a new volume of "Sketches." The object of the work, at first, was simply to amuse, by placing before the reader " a constant succession of characters...incidents; to paint them in as vivid colours as he" [the author] "could command; and to render them, at the same time, lifelike and amusing." The cumbrous... | |
 | John Marshall Gest - 1913 - 276 ページ
...before the reader a constant succession of characters and incidents; to paint them in as vivid colors as he could command, and to render them at the same time lifelike and amusing." There is no more plot in Pickwick than there is in an omelette; yet, allowing for exaggeration and... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1924 - 810 ページ
...sincerely yours, 48 DOUGHTY STBEET, Stfttmber 27, 1887. CHARLES DICKENS. PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION. THE author's object in this work, was to place before...undertaking, he adopted the machinery of the club, which vas suggested as that best adapted to his purpose: but, finding that it tended rather to his embarrassment... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 586 ページ
...over the ground, without any clearly denned purpose, at the rate of six good English miles an hour. 1. "The author's object in this work was to place before...characters and incidents ; to paint them in as vivid colors as he could command ; and to render them at the same time, lifelike and amusing." In the above... | |
 | Rachel Ablow - 2007 - 260 ページ
...Pickwick Papers (1837), for example, the novelist describes himself as an entertainer whose object "was to place before the reader a constant succession of characters and incidents . . . and to render them . . . lifelike and amusing."18 In the preface to Nicholas Nickleby (1839),... | |
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THE author's object in this work, was to place before the reader a constant succession of characters and incidents; to paint them in as vivid colours as he could command; and to render them, at the same time, life-like and amusing. 