 They say he is like Fielding ; they talk of his wit, humour, comic powers. He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture. Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humour attractive ; but both bear the same relation...  The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Page 32by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857Full view - About this book
 | People's and Howitt's journal - 938 pages
...resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both...lambent sheetlightning playing under the edge of the summer-cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb." Still, there is nothing savage or truculent... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...vulture : Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does, ffis wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his...lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer-cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb." Still, there is nothing savage or truculent... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...a vulture ; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his...lambent sheet-lightning, playing under the edge of .the summer-cloud, does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb." When this was written, Mr. Thackeray... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...a vulture ; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent •heel-lightning, playing under the edge of the summer cloud, does to the electric deathspark hid... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1853 - 606 pages
...a vulture; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius, that the mere lam beut sheet-lightning, playing under the edge of the summer-cloud, does to the electric death-spark... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Authors, English - 1857 - 352 pages
...as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped state of things His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both...Bronte had been more than usually delicate all the summer, and her sensitive spirit had been deeply affected by the great anxiety of her home. But now... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humour attractive ; but both...lambent sheet-lightning, playing under the edge of the summer-cloud, does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb." ALEPH. fnli&s. OUGHT THE EAST INDIA... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1859 - 432 pages
...a vulture ; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his...does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. — " CUEBER BELL, Author of Jone Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. •-pHE VIRGINIANS. With... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Americans - 1859 - 428 pages
...does. His wit b bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genins that the mere lambent sheet-lightning, playing under the edge of the summer clond, does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. — " CfRRtR BELL, Author of Jane Eyre, SMrlry,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1860 - 266 pages
...a vulture ; Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humor attractive, but both bear the same relation to his...does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.— " C'UBEBE BELI," Author of Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villctte, and The Professor. ANITY FAIR. A Novel without... | |
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