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...y a stirring version of Belshazzar’s feast, a steel engraving in the early Victorian manner that had some satisfactory blacks. And the woman who showe... ...il in Marylebone. So the talk went on, and presently they were criticising novelists, and certain daring essays of Wilkins got their due share of atte... ... to have you! Don’t frown me off now. Don’t go back 158 Ann Veronica into Victorian respectability and pretend you don’t know and you can’t think and... ...olice about the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness ... ...il compulsion. My dear—I can call you that here, any- how—I know that. The Victorians over-did it a little, I ad- mit. Their idea of maidenly innocenc...

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...ons of love, and he felt in himself none of that uprush of emo- tion which novelists described; he was not car- ried off his feet in wave upon wave of... ... Jones.” “Who was Ruskin anyway?” asked Flanagan. “He was one of the Great Victorians. He was a master of English style.” “Ruskin’s style—a thing of s... ...thing of shreds and purple patches,” said Lawson. “Besides, damn the Great Victorians. Whenever I open a paper and see Death of a Great Victorian, I t... ...nfire made out of the works of the Forty Academicians into which the Great Victorians might be hurled on their fortieth birthday. The idea was receive... ...om his earliest years. On the walls were quaint water colours of the early Victorian pe- 489 W. Somerset Maugham riod by a friend of the Vicar’s yout... ...ple don’t commit suicide for love, as you’d expect, that’s just a fancy of novelists; they com- mit suicide because they haven’t got any money . I won... ...uld be worth while to take them up to London; but the furniture was of the Victorian order, of mahogany , solid and ugly; it would go for nothing at a...

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... over his knees. “You lived, Sire, in a period essentially cylindrical—the Victorian. With a tendency to the hemisphere in hats. Circular curves alway... ...nna of the Future’—no doubt if they were indeed stories, they were by post Victorian authors. He puzzled over this peculiar cylinder for some time and... ...le were two hundred years further on in the march of civilisation than the Victorian generation. It was not likely they would be less—humane. Yet they... ...re which had replaced the miscellaneous houses, streets and open spaces of Victorian London. The place upon which he stood was level, with huge serpen... ...uency is the rule of the party organisation. Power was passing even in the Victorian time to the party machinery, secret, complex, and corrupt. Very s... ...w they work, marry, bear children, die—” “Y ou get that from our realistic novelists,” suggested Ostrog, suddenly preoccupied. “I want reality,” said ...

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...by a fine, had already ceased to be the sombre smoke- darkened city of the Victorian time; it had been, and indeed was, constantly being rebuilt, and ... ...zen gestures of monstrous cranes rose over the excavated sites of vanished Victorian buildings. This framework attracted Barnet’s attention for a time... ...e got within sight of the transparencies that had replaced the placards of Victorian times, he read of the Great March of the Unem- ployed that was al... ...cutely aware of secu- lar change than their predecessors were. The earlier novelists tried to show ‘life as it is,’ the latter showed life as it chang... ... of the world coming about like a ship that sails into the wind. Our later novelists give a vast gallery of individual conflicts in which old habits a...

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...pared surprise, in the unthought-out meth- ods of their opponents. In the “Victorian” war that ended in the middle of September, 1914, they delivered ... ...end, a fraction of his debt, and gets his discharge. “B’s” feelings, as we novelists used to say, are “better imagined than described”; he does his be... ...ed with them. The lawyers only came to their own at the close of the great Victorian duet of Disraeli and Gladstone, the last of the political gentlem... ... British rule. The sort of “patriotic” self-flattery that prevailed in the Victorian age, and which is so closely akin to contemporary German follies,...

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...aval very different in character from the radicalism and liberalism of the Victorian days. There were not only doubt and denial, but now there were al... ... tolerate the world as it is if it were not for smoking and drinking. Even novelists have their moments of lucidity. Certainly these things soothe the...

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...nd a Family Bible. “You’ll find it old-fashioned—what do you call it?— Mid-Victorian. I left it as is, so you could make any changes you felt were nec... ...o be saccharine enough.” She sat in the smallest rocking-chair, a model of Victorian modesty. But she saw or she imagined that the women who had gurgl... ...of the owner of the flour-mill. Mrs. Cass’s parlor belonged to the crammed-Victorian school, as Mrs. Luke Dawson’s belonged to the bare-Vic- torian. I... ...s on unexpected portions of the chair. The second principle of the crammed-Victorian school was that every inch of the interior must be filled with us... ...e Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in gen- eral demand, and the board them... ...ins to be- come altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely...

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...ed at random. Mr. Fortescue had been observing her for a moment or two, as novelists are inclined to observe, and at this remark he smiled, and made i... ...—”we don’t even print as well as they did, and as for poets or painters or novelists—there are none; so, at any rate, I’m not singular.” “No, we haven... ...he Church. In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists, all the beautiful women and distinguished men of her time. These... ...to a firm white ball. From the surrounding walls the heads of three famous Victorian writers sur- veyed this entertainment, and slips of paper pasted ... ...h had been set to an absurdly and charmingly sentimental air by some early Victorian composer. “It’s the vitality of them!” she concluded, striking he... ... so far as they were matter, and are preserved in the printed pages of our novelists so far as they partook of the spirit, a journey to London by expr...

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...l-conceived re- building which testify to the aesthetic degradation of the Victorian period? Will a great constellation of artists redeem the ambitiou... ...d that we now in our retro- 111 H. G . Wells spective way speak of as the Victorian, and it still survives to this day. It is the man’s theory of the... ...en such a thing as a novel in England. This has been recognised equally by novelists, novel-readers, and the people who wouldn’t read novels under any... ...ns. You may say that is demanding more insight and power in our novels and novelists than we can possibly hope to find in them. So much the worse for ... ...in his method of treatment; or rather, if I may presume to speak for other novelists, I would say it is not so much a demand we make as an intention w... ...h. Neither has it a peasantry nor an aristocracy, and until well on in the Victorian epoch it had no disproportionately rich people. In America, excep...

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...strong. CLARA [all smiles] I will. Good-bye. Such nonsense, all this early Victorian prudery! HIGGINS [tempting her] Such damned nonsense! CLARA. Such... ...ional people in a small way were odious to her. She ran after painters and novelists; but she did not charm them; and her bold attempts to pick up and...

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...anner as to restore to marriage something of the solemnity and gravity the Victorian era—that age of nasty sentiment, sham delicacy and giggles—has to... ... stition to which, some of us, under the agreeable counsels of sentimental novelists, of thoughtless mercenary preachers, and ignorant and indolent do... ...uld merely revive a question that was already under dis- cussion in middle Victorian times, to create non-hereditary peerages in the three kingdoms. T...