Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . the life of the streets, of the city, of the middleclassâseems at first sight depicted in this gallery. Here are merchant, shop-keeper and clerk, lawyer and client, money-lender and victim, dressmaker, actorâone knows not what. Yet there are great omissions. The scholar, the divine,the statesman, the country gentleman, are absent, partly because Dickens had noknowledge of them, and partly because he forbore to hold them up to the ridiculewhich he
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . the life of the streets, of the city, of the middleclassâseems at first sight depicted in this gallery. Here are merchant, shop-keeper and clerk, lawyer and client, money-lender and victim, dressmaker, actorâone knows not what. Yet there are great omissions. The scholar, the divine,the statesman, the country gentleman, are absent, partly because Dickens had noknowledge of them, and partly because he forbore to hold them up to the ridiculewhich he loved to pour over his characters. His methods imposed upon himcertain limitations ; he aimed at commanding his readers attention by compellinglaughter and tears, but especially laughter. He who can command neither theone nor the other is no true artist in fiction. But in his laughter and in his tearsone feels always the kindly heart as well as the skilful hand. It is for the formerâfor the deeply human heartâeven more than for the latter, that the world willcontinue to love the memory of Charles Dickens. ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889). R OBERT Browning was bom in1812, at Camberwell, father was a clerk highly placedin the house of Rothschild, and thereare still living those who rememberthe excitement of the elder man andof his friends in New Court, when thetime came for the sons first play to beproduced at Covent Garden. He wasa Dissenter, and for this reason hissons education did not proceed on theordinary English lines. The trainingwhich Robert Browning received wasmore individual, and his reading waswider and less accurate, than wouldhave been the case had he gone toEton or Winchester. Thus, thoughto the end he read Greek with thedeepest interest, he never could becalled a Greek scholar. His poeticturn declared itself rather early, and in 1835 he had a poem, Pauline, readyfor the press. But publication costs money, and his business-like father didnot see any ch
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