 Oh, my dear, dear Dickens! what a No. 5 you have now given us! I have so cried and sobbed over it last night, and again this morning ; and felt my heart purified by those tears, and blessed and loved you for making me shed them; and I never can bless...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 229edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1919 - 294 pages
...Jeffrey, for instance, wrote in 1847 : — " Oh, my dear, dear Dickens, what a No. 5 you have given us t I have so cried and sobbed over it last night and again this morning . . . . " This was all on account of the death of Little Nell. The great Irish Tribune, Daniel O'Connell,... | |
 | Sherlock Bronson Gass - 1925 - 384 pages
...will never do " will be forever associated with Wordsworth and the Romantics, "what a No. 5 you have given us! I have so cried and sobbed over it last...morning; and felt my heart purified by those tears, an3 blessed and loved you for making me shed them. Since the divine Nelly was found dead on her humble... | |
 | John Forster - 1928 - 950 pages
...Jeffrey compared * " Edinburgh, 3ist January, 1847, Oh, my dear dear Dickens ! What a No. 5 you have given us ! I have so cried and sobbed over it last...; and I never can bless and love you enough. Since the divine Nelly was found dead on her humble couch, beneath the snow and ivy, there has been nothing... | |
 | John Forster - 1928 - 956 pages
...Jeffrey compared * " Edinburgh, 3ist January, 1847, Oh, my dear dear Dickens ! What a No. 5 you have given us ! I have so cried and sobbed over it last...; and I never can bless and love you enough. Since the divine Nelly was found dead on her humble couch, beneath the snow and ivy, there has been nothing... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 472 pages
...Cockburn, Life of Jeffrey, 2, 406: "I have so cried and sobbed over it [ie the death of Paul Dombey] last night and again this morning; and felt my heart purified by those tears." Ibid., 2, 292: "I have read all Burns' life and works — not without many tears, for the life especially.... | |
 | Tom Lutz - 2001 - 358 pages
...same time to "make our hearts less selfish." Francis Jeffrey, a critic at the Edinburgh Review, wrote, "I have so cried and sobbed over it last night, and...morning; and felt my heart purified by those tears. ... In reading of these delightful children, how deeply do we feel that 'of such is the kingdom of... | |
 | Norman Page - 1999 - 456 pages
...phrase) had done. "Oh, my dear, dear Dickens!" cried the susceptible Jeffrey. "What a No. 5 you have given us ! I have so cried and sobbed over it last night, and again this morning . . ." and so on. "Read that chapter describing young Paul's death," says Thackeray, "it is unsurpassed — it... | |
 | Frederic George Kitton - 2004 - 544 pages
...greatly excited thereby, and thus addressed the Novelist: "Oh, my dear, dear Dickens! What a No. 5 you have now given us! I have so cried and sobbed over it last night, and again [LONDON 1847] this morning; and felt my heart purified by those tears, and blessed and loved you for... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1870 - 510 pages
...thus wrote about this mournful, but not unexpected, event : Oh, my dear, clear Dickens ! what a No. 5 you have now given us ! I have so cried and sobbed...making me shed them ; and I never can bless and love von. enough. Since that divine Nelly was found dead on her humble coach, beneath the snow and the ivy,... | |
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