The Gentlest Art: a Choice of Letters, By Entertaining Hands
The Gentlest Art: a Choice of Letters, By Entertaining Hands
Lucas Edward Verrall
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In the first place, it pleases the other author to see that Dickens, who has long left off alluding to the O.A.'s works, has been copying the O.A., and greatly simplifying his style and overcoming the use of fine words. By this the public will be the gainer, and David Copperfield will be improved by taking a les- son from Vanity Fair, Secondly, it has put me upon my metal ; for ah ! madame, all the metal was out of me, and 237 Digitized by V^OOgie Spedding*s Forehead I have been dreadfully and ...curiously cast down this month past. I say, secondly, it has put me on my metal, and made me feel I must do something; that I have fame and name and fcimily to support. . . • Edward FitzGerald in a houseful of children -^o Geldestone Hall, Beccles Sunday J May 22/42 MY DEAR LAURENCE,— I read of the advertise- ments of sales and auctions, but don't envy you Londoners while I am here in the midst of green idleness^ as Leigh Hunt might call it. What are pictures? I am all for pure spirit. You have, of course, read the account of Spedding's forehead landing in America.
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