"Dickens" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inoculated with the genuine spirit of the negro; and even those who have succeeded best have done only moderately well, because they have not had the negro nature. It is reserved to some black Shakspeare or Dickens to lay open the wonderful humor, pathos, poetry, and power which slumber in the negro's soul, and which now and then flash out like the fire from ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various
... was,' continued Mr. Sponge; 'and the first intimation I had of the fact was a great, gruff voice, exclaiming, "Who the Dickens are you?" ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... firms of publishers who never advertise in any literary weekly or any daily, who never publish anything new, and who may possibly be unknown to Simpkins themselves. They issue badly printed, badly bound, showy editions of the eternal Scott and the eternal Dickens, in many glittering volumes with scores of bleared illustrations, and they will sell them up and down the provinces by means of respectably dressed "commission agents," at prices much in excess of their value, ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett
... Van Emmon broke in. It seemed as though his mind refused to get past this particular point. "Now, why the dickens have the humans allowed the ...
— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint
... Cushman in Rome, and in London she saw many lions—Mazzini, Kossuth, Dickens and Talfourd, Kingsley, Lover, the Howellses, Miss Mitford, Mrs. ...
— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn
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