 They must go a certain way, in spite of themselves. I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving the pen. The personage does or says something, and I ask, how the Dickens did he come...  The Home and Foreign Review - Page 4821864Full view - About this book
 | SMITH - 1862 - 924 pages
...a certain way, in spite of themselves. I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving...ask, how the Dickens did he come to think of that ? Every man has remarked in dreams, the vast dramatic power which is sometimes evinced ; I won't say... | |
 | 1864 - 560 pages
...and too generally undervalued : — " I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult power was moving...ask, How the dickens did he come to think of that? . . . We spake anon of the inflated style of some 122 123 writers. What also if there is an afflaled... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 754 pages
...a certain way, in spite of themselves. I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving...ask, how the Dickens did he come to think of that ? Every man has remarked in dreams, the vast dramatic power which is sometimes evinced ; I won't say... | |
 | 1864 - 572 pages
...much and too generally undervalued:—" I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult power was moving...the pen. The personage does or says something, and 1 ask, How the dickens did he come to think of that ? . . . We spake anon of the inflated style of... | |
 | John Brown - English literature - 1866 - 454 pages
...too much and too generally undervalued: "I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult power was moving...ask, How the dickens did he come to think of that ? . . . We spake anon of the inflated style of some writers. What also if there is an afflated style... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 448 pages
...much and too generally undervalued : " I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult power was moving...something, and I ask, How the dickens did he come to tliink of that? . . . We spake anon of the inflated style of some writers. What also if there is an... | |
 | WI;;IAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY - 1867 - 476 pages
...a certain way, in spite of themselves. I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving...ask, how the Dickens did he come to think of that ? Every man has remarked in dreams, the vast dramatic power which is sometimes evinced,—I won't say... | |
 | S.E.H. CHAMBERS - 1869 - 452 pages
...a certain way, in spite of themselves. I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving...ask, how the dickens did he come to think of that ? Every man has remarked in dreams, the vast dramatic power which is sometimes evinced; I won't say... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 444 pages
...a certain way, in spite of themselves. I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving...ask, how the dickens did he come to think of that ? Every man has remarked in dreams, the vast dramatic power which is sometimes evinced; I won't say... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 450 pages
...a certain way, in spite of themselves. I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving...ask, how the dickens did he come to think of that ? Every man has remarked in dreams, the vast dramatic power which is sometimes evinced ; I won't say... | |
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