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Title: The life and writings of Charles Dickens: a woman's memorial volume
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Novelists, English
Publisher: Boston, B.B. Russell San Francisco, A.L. Bancroft & co. (etc, etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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olten gold; still, when the day isgloomy, do they fall like snow, or seem to crumble awaylike the front of a great chalk-cliff, or roll down the rocklike dense white smoke : but always does the mightystream appear to die as it comes down ; and always fromits unfathomable grave arises that tremendous ghost ofspray and mist which is never laid, which has hauntedthis place with the same dread solemnity since darknessbrooded on the deep, and that first flood before theDeluge — light—came rushing on creation at the wordof God. CHAPTER VIII. CHRISTMAS CAROLS. Martin Chuzzlewit. —Pictures from Italy.—First Carol. —Tiny Tim. —TheChiraes.— Cricket on the Hearth. O lovely voices of the sky, Wliich hymned the Saviours birth 1Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, Peace on earth ?To us yet speak the strains Wherewith, in times gone by,Ye blessed the Syrian swains,O voices of the sky! Mrs. Hemans. li. 14 Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good-will toward men.-Lukk
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OLLOWING his Notes, on his returnfrom America, Mr. Dickens wrote a novelcalled Martin Chuzzlewit, which, like The Notes, created great excitementon this side of the water; and they whohad been fulsome in their adulation of the novelist wereextremely indignant that he should repay, as they felt,their land welcome with abuse and sarcasm. This bookappeared in numbers during 1844. A writer in TheIllustrated London News thinks that Mr. Dickenss 208 CHARLES DICKENS. 209 *method of composing and publishing his tales inmonthly parts, or sometimes in weekly parts, aided theexperience of this immediate personal companionship be-tween the writer and the reader. It was just as if wereceived a letter or a visit, at regular intervals, from akindly observant gossip, who was in the habit of watch-ing the domestic life of the Nicklebys or the Chuzzlewits,and who would let us know from time to time how theywere going on. There was no assumption, in general, ofhaving a complete and finished history to d

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