Fifty years ago . WITH THE WITS 187 briand, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Beranger, Alfred deMusset, Scribe, and Dumas were all writing, a groupmuch stronger than our English team. It is difficult to understand, at first, that betweenthe time of Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats, andtliat of Dickens, Thackeray, Marryat, Lever, Tennyson,. ? VATHEK BECKFOED(From a Medallion) Browning, and Carlyle, there existed this generationof wits, most of them almost forgotten. Those, how-ever, who consider tlie men and women of the Thirtieshave to deal, for the most part, with a literaturethat is third-rate. Th
Fifty years ago . WITH THE WITS 187 briand, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Beranger, Alfred deMusset, Scribe, and Dumas were all writing, a groupmuch stronger than our English team. It is difficult to understand, at first, that betweenthe time of Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats, andtliat of Dickens, Thackeray, Marryat, Lever, Tennyson,. ? VATHEK BECKFOED(From a Medallion) Browning, and Carlyle, there existed this generationof wits, most of them almost forgotten. Those, how-ever, who consider tlie men and women of the Thirtieshave to deal, for the most part, with a literaturethat is third-rate. This kind becomes dreadfully flatand stale when it has been out for fifty years ; thedullest, flattest, dreariest reading that can be found on 188 FIFTY YEARS AGO the shelves m the sprightly novel of Society, written inthe Thirties. A blight had fallen upon novels and their enormous success that Scott had achieved temptedhundreds to follow in his path, if that were possible. ?
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