 | 1838 - 822 页
...villains of the Byron school, by the examples which he sets before them. Speaking of Pelham, he says, " it contributed to put an end to the satanic mania...the corsair and boasting that they were villains." He seems to be content to have multiplied crime by diminishing its intensity ; for let him be assured... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1842 - 700 页
...attempted I cannot pretend to say ; one at least I imagine that it did answer : I think, above moat works, it contributed to put an end to the satanic...that hero attributes to himself— those were foibles a thousand times more harmless, and even more manly and noble, than the profession of misanthropy,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 710 页
...that it did answer: I think, above most works, it contributed to put an end to the Satanic mania,—to turn the thoughts and ambition of young gentlemen...emulating the foibles which that hero attributes to himself—those were foibles a thousand times more harmless, and even more manly and noble, than the... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1893 - 394 页
...maintain. Whether it answered all the objects it attempted I cannot pretend to say; one at least I f imagine that it did answer: I think, above most works,...mistaking the irony of Pelham, they went to the extreme of emulatmg^the "foibTcs which that hero attributes to himself, — those were foibles at least more harmless,... | |
 | Earl of Lytton - 1913 - 632 页
...most works, it contributed to put an end to the Satanic Mania — to turn the thoughts and ambitions of young gentlemen without neckcloths, and young clerks...boasting that they were villains. If, mistaking the 1 George Burges (1786-1864) was a well-known Trinity man, who at this time had a high reputation as... | |
 | Frances Theresa Russell - 1920 - 374 页
...Laureate's two unique faculties, — "of believing without a reason, and of hating without a provocation." young clerks who were sallow, from playing the Corsair and boasting that they were villains." 1 Nearly a half century after Pelham, we have a reference which strikes indirectly the keynote of satire,... | |
 | Andrew Elfenbein - 1995 - 310 页
...as a heroic ideal for readers of popular literature. In his 1840 preface, he boasted that the work contributed to put an end to the Satanic mania, —...than the conceit of a general detestation of mankind, (p. 452) Whether or not clerks actually played the Corsair, Pelham directed them to close their Byron... | |
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Whether it answered all the objects it attempted I cannot pretend to say; one at least I imagine that it did answer: I think, above most works, it contributed to put an end to the Satanic mania, — to turn the thoughts and ambition of young gentlemen... 