item: #1 of 23 id: 11126 author: Sweetser, Kate Dickinson title: Ten Girls from Dickens date: None words: 65067 flesch: 79 summary: With a quick perception that it was intended to relate to what she had asked, little Florence sat down on a stool at the nurse's feet, looking up into her face. In spite of being thus adjured, and in spite also of some hauling on the part of Susan Nipper, little Florence broke away, and kissed her new friend affectionately, but Susan Nipper made a charge at her, and swept her out of the room. keywords: bed; boy; charley; child; children; day; dear; dombey; door; eyes; face; father; florence; girl; good; gradgrind; grandfather; hand; head; home; house; jenny; lady; left; let; life; look; man; marchioness; mind; miss; mrs; nell; night; poor; room; saw; sir; swiveller; thought; time; way; work; wren; young cache: 11126.txt plain text: 11126.txt item: #2 of 23 id: 11227 author: Sweetser, Kate Dickinson title: Ten Boys from Dickens date: None words: 63127 flesch: 82 summary: Kit thanked him, and joyfully obeyed, and held the refractory little beast until the little old lady and little old gentleman came out, and the old gentleman, taking his seat and the reins again, put his hand in his pocket to find a sixpence for Kit. Good boys, good boys! said the Jew. keywords: aunt; blimber; boy; boys; child; day; dear; doctor; dombey; door; eyes; face; gentleman; good; half; hand; havisham; head; home; house; joe; kit; lady; life; little; look; miss; mother; mrs; nicholas; night; oliver; paul; peggotty; place; room; round; sir; squeers; think; thought; time; way cache: 11227.txt plain text: 11227.txt item: #3 of 23 id: 12337 author: Harte, Bret title: Dickens in Camp date: None words: 1666 flesch: 70 summary: By reason of that gift of his Bret Harte has been popularly compared with his great contemporary beyond the seas, greatest of all sentimentalists among writers of fiction, Charles Dickens. Mr. Pemberton states, also, that Bret Harte always felt that he owed a deep debt of gratitude to Charles Dickens. keywords: bret; camp; dickens; harte cache: 12337.txt plain text: 12337.txt item: #4 of 23 id: 1243 author: Meynell, Alice title: Hearts of Controversy date: None words: 20938 flesch: 68 summary: Truly the age of the Rape of the Lock and the Elegy was an age of great wit and great poetry. At the outset I warned the judges and the pronouncers of sentences how this poet, with other poets of quite different character, would escape their summaries, and he has indeed refuted that maxim which I had learned at illustrious knees, You may not dissociate the matter and manner of any of the greatest poets; the two are so fused by integrity of fire, whether in tragedy or epic or in the simplest song, that the sundering is the vainest task of criticism. keywords: art; author; bronte; century; charlotte; day; dickens; english; french; good; heart; imagery; light; love; man; manner; men; nature; poet; poetry; reader; sense; swinburne; tennyson; thing; thought; time; verse; word cache: 1243.txt plain text: 1243.txt item: #5 of 23 id: 12632 author: Fields, James Thomas title: Yesterdays with Authors date: None words: 157874 flesch: 73 summary: Among the books which I have been reading with the greatest interest is the Life of Dr. Channing, and I can hardly tell you the glow of gratification with which I found my own name mentioned, as one of the writers in whose works that great man had taken pleasure. Next morning, Harness (Fields knows--Rev. William--did an edition of Shakespeare--old friend of the Kembles and Mrs. Siddons), writing to me about it, and saying it was a most amazing and terrific thing, added, but I am bound to tell you that I had an almost irresistible impulse upon me to _scream_, and that, if any one had cried out, I am certain I should have followed. keywords: age; america; author; bennoch; book; boston; boy; care; charles; charming; children; come; coming; country; course; day; days; dear; death; dickens; dinner; england; english; evening; face; family; father; fields; friend; gad; god; good; half; hand; hawthorne; head; heart; hill; holmes; home; hope; hour; house; interest; john; kind; kindness; lady; letter; life; london; look; love; man; manner; men; miles; mind; miss; morning; mrs; new; night; note; people; person; place; pleasure; poet; poor; present; procter; public; read; reading; road; romance; room; round; sir; sort; story; street; summer; table; talk; thackeray; thank; things; thought; time; visit; voice; volume; walk; want; way; week; wish; words; work; world; writing; written; years; young cache: 12632.txt plain text: 12632.txt item: #6 of 23 id: 12933 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great date: None words: 72765 flesch: 78 summary: THOMAS CARLYLE One comfort is that great men taken up in any way are profitable company. Occasionally these articles were duly fathered by great men, as this gave them the required specific gravity. keywords: america; author; beauty; books; boy; carlyle; children; church; country; day; death; dickens; dollars; edison; england; fact; father; form; friend; genius; george; gladstone; god; goldsmith; good; grave; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; hugo; ireland; left; life; little; london; look; love; man; men; mind; mother; mrs; new; night; number; people; place; plain; play; poet; public; read; room; ruskin; shakespeare; shop; sir; street; swift; thackeray; things; think; thought; time; truth; turner; victor; village; way; white; wife; william; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 12933.txt plain text: 12933.txt item: #7 of 23 id: 16595 author: Lightwood, James T. (James Thomas) title: Charles Dickens and Music date: None words: 37400 flesch: 80 summary: Written by _H. Copeland_ from a song by _W.T. Townsend_. The instrument beloved of Miss Tox (_D. & S._) was the harpsichord, and her favourite piece was the 'Bird Waltz,' while the 'Copenhagen Waltz' was also in her repertoire. keywords: air; ballad; bells; book; captain; charles; church; comic; d.c; day; dickens; dombey; flute; gentleman; good; home; instrument; john; l.d; little; london; m.c; man; master; miss; moore; mrs; music; night; o.c.s; occasion; opera; organ; original; p.p; piano; place; play; reference; s.b.t; set; singing; song; time; tune; voice; words; young cache: 16595.txt plain text: 16595.txt item: #8 of 23 id: 16787 author: Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir title: Life of Charles Dickens date: None words: 59177 flesch: 78 summary: Mr. Charles Dickens--Leading Article, June 10, 1870; Obituary notice, June 11, 1870, pp. 8-12. ; Sir E. Bulwer Lytton and Mr. Charles Dickens. keywords: 8vo; acts; april; article; book; boston; c.d; chapter; character; charles dickens; child; christmas; course; david; day; death; dickens; dombey; drama; edinburgh; edition; english; etc; far; father; forster; george; good; home; house; household; humour; illustrated; illustrations; john; july; june; kind; life; little; london; magazine; man; march; martin; men; monthly; mrs; n.d; new; number; pickwick; place; poor; portrait; public; readings; review; series; sketches; story; time; vol; vols; wife; words; work; world; year; york; young cache: 16787.txt plain text: 16787.txt item: #9 of 23 id: 22362 author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title: Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens date: None words: 75546 flesch: 70 summary: No; the democracy is really composed of Dickens characters, for the simple reason that Dickens was himself one of the democracy. _David Copperfield_ begins as if it were going to be a new kind of Dickens novel; then it gradually turns into an old kind of Dickens novel. keywords: america; book; case; century; character; charles dickens; christmas; copperfield; david; dickens; drood; england; english; fact; friend; good; hero; history; house; humour; idea; instance; kind; life; literature; love; man; men; modern; mrs; new; nicholas; nickleby; novel; people; pickwick; point; poor; quality; read; revolution; right; sense; sort; stories; story; tale; thackeray; thing; time; truth; way; work; world; write cache: 22362.txt plain text: 22362.txt item: #10 of 23 id: 25852 author: Dickens, Charles title: The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856 date: None words: 140992 flesch: 79 summary: Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to the Editor of _ Mr. Charles Dickens presents his compliments to Miss Joll. keywords: book; boulogne; charles; children; christmas; collins; company; course; day; days; dear; devonshire; dickens; dinner; english; evening; forster; friday; friend; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; household; idea; kate; kind; know; leave; letter; life; london; look; love; macready; man; manner; men; mind; miss; monday; morning; morrow; mrs; new; night; number; paper; paris; past; people; piece; place; play; pleasure; present; purpose; room; saturday; sidenote; sir; sister; story; street; subject; sunday; tavistock; tell; terrace; theatre; thing; thought; thursday; time; town; tuesday; want; watson; way; week; wills; wish; words; work; world; write; writing; year; yesterday cache: 25852.txt plain text: 25852.txt item: #11 of 23 id: 25853 author: Dickens, Charles title: The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870 date: None words: 141420 flesch: 78 summary: With amazing perversity the local agent said to Dolby: They hoped that Mr. Dickens _might_ have given them 'The Boy at Mugby.' Barton, the gasman who succeeded the man who sprained his leg, sprained _his_ leg yesterday!! [Sidenote: Mr. Charles Dickens.] PARKER HOUSE, BOSTON, U.S., _Saturday, Nov. 30th, 1867. keywords: affectionate; arthur; audience; away; book; business; charles; christmas; coming; country; course; day; dear; dearest; dickens; dinner; dolby; doubt; forster; friday; friend; gad; going; good; great; half; hall; head; higham; hill; hogarth; home; hope; hotel; house; interest; john; kent; kind; letter; life; london; look; love; macready; man; mary; men; mind; miss; monday; morning; morrow; mrs; new; night; number; office; people; place; poor; public; read; reading; rochester; room; round; saturday; sidenote; sir; story; sunday; tavistock; tell; thing; thursday; time; town; tuesday; way; wednesday; week; work; year; yesterday; young cache: 25853.txt plain text: 25853.txt item: #12 of 23 id: 25854 author: Dickens, Charles title: The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 3, 1836-1870 date: None words: 83314 flesch: 80 summary: General G. sends compliments to Mr. Dickens, and called with two literary ladies. No such attractive issue has been made of the writings of Mr. Dickens, which, various as have been the forms of publication adapted to the demands of an ever widely-increasing popularity, have never yet been worthily presented in a really handsome library form. keywords: 8vo; america; believe; book; bulwer; case; charles; cloth; coming; course; crown; crown 8vo; day; dear; demy; devonshire; dickens; edition; edward; fields; forster; friend; gad; good; half; head; heart; hill; home; hope; house; illustrations; inches; interest; john; kind; letter; life; like; london; lord; love; lytton; man; men; miss; monday; morning; mrs; new; night; people; place; play; pleasure; poor; post; present; round; set; sidenote; sir; story; sunday; terrace; thought; time; vols; way; words; work; write; year; yesterday; â£1 cache: 25854.txt plain text: 25854.txt item: #13 of 23 id: 27572 author: Nicklin, J. A. (John Arnold) title: Dickens-Land date: None words: 15246 flesch: 60 summary: That is one side of the medal, but the other is displayed in _David Copperfield_, when little Mr. Chillip, the doctor, welcomes David back to England: 'We are not ignorant, sir,' said Mr. Chillip, slowly shaking his little head again, 'down in our part of the country, of your fame. Uniform with this Series_ Beautiful Ireland LEINSTER ULSTER MUNSTER CONNAUGHT LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Chalk, House where Dickens spent his honeymoon _ keywords: boy; castle; cathedral; chatham; church; cobham; dickens; english; gadshill; green; house; illustration; kent; life; london; man; medway; miles; old; pickwick; place; road; rochester; room; street; time; town; village cache: 27572.txt plain text: 27572.txt item: #14 of 23 id: 30127 author: Rives, Hallie Erminie title: Tales from Dickens date: None words: 109327 flesch: 81 summary: Often in the summer, on the sea-beach, old Mr. Dombey might have been seen wandering with Florence's little children. III WHAT RICHES BROUGHT TO THE DORRITS Great changes came to old Mr. Dorrit with his money. keywords: arthur; barnaby; boy; child; daughter; david; day; dombey; door; dorrit; face; father; florence; friend; good; head; heart; home; house; joe; john; lady; life; like; little; london; long; love; man; martin; miss; money; mother; mrs; nell; nicholas; night; old; oliver; pecksniff; people; pickwick; pip; poor; prison; room; saw; shop; son; story; thought; time; way; wife; winkle; woman; years cache: 30127.txt plain text: 30127.txt item: #15 of 23 id: 30390 author: Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) title: Dickens' London date: None words: 62048 flesch: 67 summary: _, who might be glad of a work which should present within a single pair of covers a résumé of the facts concerning the subject matter indicated by the title of this book; to remind them in a way of what already exists to-day of the London Dickens knew, as well as of the changes which have taken place since the novelist's time. He did not go to Australia--as he was variously importuned--but enough is given to show that, in spite of his literary associations with old London and its institutions, Charles Dickens was, for a fact, a very cosmopolitan observer. keywords: book; bridge; building; century; charles; charles dickens; church; city; class; company; corner; court; cross; day; days; dickens; early; end; fact; fields; fleet; form; general; george; hall; hand; high; hill; holborn; house; illustration; inn; james; john; king; lane; left; life; london; london bridge; lord; man; market; neighbourhood; new; novelist; number; original; park; past; pickwick; place; present; prison; public; railway; river; road; rochester; sir; square; strand; street; structure; temple; thames; theatre; time; tower; way; westminster; work; world; years cache: 30390.txt plain text: 30390.txt item: #16 of 23 id: 31394 author: Hughes, William R. (William Richard) title: A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected date: None words: 109173 flesch: 67 summary: [Illustration: St. Mary's Church, Portsea.] Mr. Cobb (whom I recollect), a fellow-clerk of Mr. John Dickens in the pay-office in the Portsmouth Dockyard, rented the same house of my father after Mr. John Dickens left, and often alluded to the many happy hours he spent in it while Mr. Dickens resided there. It was in Furnival's Inn, probably in the year 1836, that Thackeray paid a visit to Dickens, and thus described the meeting:-- I can remember, when Mr. Dickens was a very young man, and had commenced delighting the world with some charming humorous works in covers which were coloured light green and came out once a month, that this young man wanted an artist to illustrate his writings; and I remember walking up to his chambers in Furnival's Inn, with two or three drawings in my hand, which, strange to say, he did not find suitable. keywords: book; bridge; castle; cathedral; chapter; charles dickens; chatham; church; city; cobham; country; course; david; day; days; death; dickens; dickens family; door; drood; edwin; fact; family; father; fine; following; forster; friend; gad; garden; gate; gentleman; good; green; ground; half; hall; hand; having; head; high; higham; hill; hill place; house; illustration; inn; interest; john; john dickens; kent; kind; kitton; land; late; left; letter; life; little; london; long; looking; man; medway; miles; miss; mr dickens; mrs; new; night; novelist; number; occasion; people; pickwick; place; poor; present; public; residence; richard; river; road; rochester; room; said; second; sir; son; stone; story; street; strood; time; town; tramp; visit; walk; way; william; work; years cache: 31394.txt plain text: 31394.txt item: #17 of 23 id: 32372 author: None title: Dickens's Children: Ten Drawings date: None words: 742 flesch: 79 summary: Great Expectations, Chapter II_ Jenny Wren, the Little Dolls' Dressmaker _Our Mutual Friend, Chapter I, Book Second_ Oliver's First Meeting with the Artful Dodger _Oliver Twist, Chapter VIII_ Mrs. Kenwigs and the Four Little Kenwigses _Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter XIV_ The Runaway Couple _Christmas Stories, The Holly-Tree, Second Branch_ Little Em'ly _David Copperfield, Chapter III_ TINY TIM AND BOB CRATCHIT ON CHRISTMAS DAY TINY TIM AND BOB CRATCHIT ON CHRISTMAS DAY _ A Christmas Carol, Stave Three_ David Copperfield and Peggotty by the Parlour Fire _David Copperfield, Chapter II_ Paul Dombey and Florence on the Beach at Brighton _Dombey and Son, Chapter VIII_ Little Nell and Her Grandfather at Mrs. Jarley's _ keywords: chapter; little cache: 32372.txt plain text: 32372.txt item: #18 of 23 id: 34112 author: Trumble, Alfred title: In Jail with Charles Dickens date: None words: 41176 flesch: 68 summary: In the intervals of the sixteen years he spent in this one prison, since his first conviction, he had served five terms in other prisons, three in the County Jail, of Philadelphia, one in the Baltimore Penitentiary, and one in New York. This system, which was excused on the plea of overcrowding of the jail by commitments of the courts, was called chummage, and the system produced another curious practice of prison life. keywords: bailey; bench; captain; chapter; court; crowd; day; death; debtors; dickens; door; fire; fleet; gaol; ground; hand; house; iron; jail; king; left; life; london; man; marshalsea; men; micawber; newgate; night; number; people; period; pickwick; place; prison; prisoners; public; room; stone; street; time; walls; way; windows; women; yard; years cache: 34112.txt plain text: 34112.txt item: #19 of 23 id: 36714 author: Ward, Adolphus William, Sir title: Dickens date: None words: 72391 flesch: 60 summary: Even had a sapient critic been right who declared, during the progress of the story, that Mr. Dickens appeared to have worked out the particular vein of humour which had hitherto yielded so much attractive metal, it would have been worked out to some purpose. The separation, which appears to have been preparing itself for some, but no very long, time, took place in May, 1858, when, after an amicable arrangement, Mrs. Dickens left her husband, who henceforth allowed her an ample separate maintenance, and occasionally corresponded with her, but never saw her again. keywords: author; book; character; christmas; copperfield; country; course; david; day; days; death; dickens; doubt; effect; english; family; feeling; fiction; forster; friend; general; genius; good; half; hand; heart; history; home; house; humour; interest; john; journal; kind; letters; life; london; lord; love; man; manner; men; mind; mrs; nature; new; night; novel; number; original; paper; pickwick; picture; place; power; public; readings; real; series; sketches; son; stage; story; success; thought; time; way; words; work; world; writer; years cache: 36714.txt plain text: 36714.txt item: #20 of 23 id: 37121 author: Dickens, Charles title: Charles Dickens' Children Stories date: None words: 19349 flesch: 85 summary: Mr. Murdstone did not take any notice of poor little David, nor had Miss Murdstone a word of kindness for the orphan. For little Jo was very poor. keywords: away; child; david; day; father; good; house; little; man; master; mother; mrs; night; pip; poor; sir cache: 37121.txt plain text: 37121.txt item: #21 of 23 id: 37284 author: Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin) title: Dickens As an Educator date: None words: 118504 flesch: 71 summary: In the twenty-eight schools described in his writings, and in the training of his army of little children in institutions and homes, he reveals nearly every form of bad training resulting from ignorance, selfishness, indifference, unwise zeal, unphilosophic philosophy, and un-Christian theology. Many mothers realized their own cruelty by reading such descriptions of cruelty toward little children. keywords: blimber; book; boy; boys; character; child; childhood; children; coercion; david; day; dear; development; dickens; doctor; dombey; education; eyes; face; fact; family; father; froebel; gentleman; god; good; gradgrind; great; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; life; little; look; love; major; man; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; murdstone; nature; need; new; old; oliver; parents; paul; people; pipchin; place; power; punishment; right; school; self; sir; son; squeers; strong; study; sympathy; system; teachers; things; think; thought; time; training; way; work; world; wrong; years; young cache: 37284.txt plain text: 37284.txt item: #22 of 23 id: 42908 author: Matz, B. W. (Bertram Waldrom) title: Dickensian Inns & Taverns date: None words: 52423 flesch: 65 summary: We not only encounter old inns and old houses with their cherished memories, their old rooms, each with its own romantic atmosphere and a tale to tell, but we traverse picturesque by-ways and highways, which in themselves recall the past as well as reveal unchanging scenes of glorious nature; we can experience these feelings to-day in a way our fathers could not. This was the King's Arms in the Market Street, the exterior of which was dismal, quite uninviting, and lacked any sort of picturesqueness such as one associates with old inns; but the interior soon compensated for the unattractiveness of the exterior by its atmosphere, fittings and customs. keywords: arms; book; building; castle; chapter; city; coach; coaching; coffee; company; david; day; days; dickens; dinner; doubt; fire; george; good; half; head; hill; hotel; house; illustration; inn; inns; john; journey; king; left; lion; little; london; long; man; maypole; mrs; near; nicholas; night; occasion; place; public; red; road; room; royal; saracen; scene; sign; story; street; tavern; time; town; village; way; white cache: 42908.txt plain text: 42908.txt item: #23 of 23 id: 43207 author: Dickens, Charles title: Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Pictures Printed from the Original Wood Blocks date: None words: 19885 flesch: 82 summary: [Illustration: SEATED ON AN UPRIGHT TOMBSTONE, CLOSE TO HIM, WAS A STRANGE UNEARTHLY FIGURE--Chap. [Illustration: A FEW--A VERY FEW--WILL SUFFICE, ROSE, SAID THE YOUNG MAN, DRAWING HIS CHAIR TOWARDS HER--Chap. keywords: barnard; book; chair; chap; child; door; face; fred; hand; head; iii; illustration; life; look; man; miss; mrs; page; room; sir; vii; viii; way; xiii cache: 43207.txt plain text: 43207.txt