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Douglas Jerrold in Punch's Letters to his Son or, to stretch the illustration, in Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures And finally, in a certain famous volume, containing certain mysterious Letters and Speeches of a once great Lord Protector of England, are we not with much greater frequency reminded of the style and presence Of Mr. Thomas Carlyle than of Oliver Cromwell?
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Douglas Jerrold in Punch's Letters to his Son or, to stretch the illustration, in Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures And finally, in a certain famous volume, containing certain mysterious Letters and Speeches of a once great Lord Protector of England, are we not with much greater frequency reminded of the style and presence Of Mr. Thomas Carlyle than of Oliver Cromwell?
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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I intended these Letters to be the confidences and counsels of a garrulous old woman of the world - made more talkative by the confinement of an invalid's sofa - but withal, in spite of her age and her ill health, as shrewd, as caustic, and as humorous as I have known many old women of the world to be. The charitable critic at a loss, like the schoolmaster, to know "where to have" me, will scarcely, I hope, accuse me of an egotistical desire, in calling my imaginary letter-writer, Lady Chesterfield, nee Constance Sevignier, to provoke comparisons or to establish a parallel between these essays and the elaborate epistolary performances of the vivacious widow of Louis the Fourteenth's time, or the polished exercitations of Philip Dormer Stanhope. As well were these the supposititious communications of a west-country fox-hunter, might I call them "provincial letters." Nor, again, in an age when burlesque is the vogue, and the most brilliant achievements of human genius have been impudently and senselessly caricatured, shall I find, it is to be hoped, wiseacres to reprehend me for an attempt to parody some of the most skilful and polished compositions in the English language. I know, from long experience in the craft, that many professional critics confine their labours to reviewing the title and imprint of a book - a few lines of its exordium, and the last phrase or so of its peroration.
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