Pictures from English literature . THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. The Vicar of Wakefield is a domestic epic. Its hero is a countryparson, simple, pious, and pure-hearted ; a humorist in his way, a little vain ofhis learning, not a little proud of his fine family; sententious at times, butnever pedantic, never dogmatical, save on the one hobby of monogamy. Amore delightful character never was drawn, a portrait more life-like never waslimned by pen or pencil ; and we feel that a living model sat for the artist,however exquisite the art that shaped it into form, and clothed and drapedit, and threw aroun
Pictures from English literature . THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. The Vicar of Wakefield is a domestic epic. Its hero is a countryparson, simple, pious, and pure-hearted ; a humorist in his way, a little vain ofhis learning, not a little proud of his fine family; sententious at times, butnever pedantic, never dogmatical, save on the one hobby of monogamy. Amore delightful character never was drawn, a portrait more life-like never waslimned by pen or pencil ; and we feel that a living model sat for the artist,however exquisite the art that shaped it into form, and clothed and drapedit, and threw around it all the accessories that make the picture one of theloveliest and most enduring ever hung up in the gallery of literature. To tellthat story again in other words than Goldsmiths would be an impertinence, ifnot something worse : to epitomise its main features is all that we may can but bid the characters of the vicar, his wife, and children pass in reviewbefore us like old familiar friends, the sight of whom, even though
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