FW: Slander! I drank of course true German beer! Why would I import what is still our national bevarage from the Swedes when I was anti import and encouraged homegrown products wherever I could? And that is not touching on the vile stuff called Ale which Englishmen drink. As for my leisure activities, this scoundrel omitted my devotion to hearing men of god preach, and occasionally encourage them to preach correctly, and my dedication to portray my long fellows individually.
vices from which History averts her eyes and which even satire blushes to name—vices such that, to borrow the energetic language of Lord-Keeper Coventry, "the depraved nature of man, which of itself carrieth man to all other sin, abhorreth them."
Good lord. If one ever needs an illustration of how much has changed between the 18th and the 19th century, it's this. That that you don't have homophobes galore in the 18th century as well, but satire sure had no problem naming homosexuality then.
Oliver Twist in the parish work-house, Smike at Dotheboys Hall
This is a fascinating testimony to how quickly Dickens became not just popular, but so popular that Macauly could expect his readers to identiy these allusions without him having to explain them. When was this Fritz bio published again, in the late 1840s? That's just ten years after Nicholas Nickleby (the novel Smike is from) finished publishing.
So....kicking only your own subjects is better than kicking someone else's? (Who aren't bound by being your subject to take it.)
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Re: Macaulay - FW
Date: 2020-09-03 10:35 am (UTC)FW: Slander! I drank of course true German beer! Why would I import what is still our national bevarage from the Swedes when I was anti import and encouraged homegrown products wherever I could? And that is not touching on the vile stuff called Ale which Englishmen drink. As for my leisure activities, this scoundrel omitted my devotion to hearing men of god preach, and occasionally encourage them to preach correctly, and my dedication to portray my long fellows individually.
vices from which History averts her eyes and which even satire blushes to name—vices such that, to borrow the energetic language of Lord-Keeper Coventry, "the depraved nature of man, which of itself carrieth man to all other sin, abhorreth them."
Good lord. If one ever needs an illustration of how much has changed between the 18th and the 19th century, it's this. That that you don't have homophobes galore in the 18th century as well, but satire sure had no problem naming homosexuality then.
Oliver Twist in the parish work-house, Smike at Dotheboys Hall
This is a fascinating testimony to how quickly Dickens became not just popular, but so popular that Macauly could expect his readers to identiy these allusions without him having to explain them. When was this Fritz bio published again, in the late 1840s? That's just ten years after Nicholas Nickleby (the novel Smike is from) finished publishing.
So....kicking only your own subjects is better than kicking someone else's? (Who aren't bound by being your subject to take it.)