 | American literature - 1886 - 892 pages
...characteristic idea in the watch kept by Orlick, first on Mrs. Gargery, till he strikes her a death-blow, and then long and patiently on Pip, till finally he...been so thoroughly worked by a novelist as this pet theme of Dickens had been worked — and overworked, one would have said — in the stories I have... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1886 - 898 pages
...characteristic idea in the watch kept by Orlick, first on Mrs. Gargery, till he strikes her a death-blow, and then long and patiently on Pip, till finally he...been so thoroughly worked by a novelist as this pet theme of Dickens had been worked — and overworked, one would have said — in the stories I have... | |
 | Periodicals - 1886 - 406 pages
...somewhat too fully. in the watch kept by Orlick, first on Mrs. Gargery, till he strikes her a death-blow, and then long and patiently on Pip, till finally he...been so thoroughly worked by a novelist as this pet theme of Dickens had been worked — and overworked, one would have said — in the stones I have dealt... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1886 - 684 pages
...characteristic idea in the watch kept by Orlick, first on Mrs. Gargery, till he strikes her a death-blow, and then long and patiently on Pip, till finally he...destroyed from off the face of the earth. (Another vilkin was to have planned a similar end for his victim in Dickens's latest story.) Never surely had... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1886 - 686 pages
...characteristic idea in the watch kept by Orlick, first on Mrs. Gargery, till he strikes her a death-blow, and then long and patiently on Pip, till finally he...by the marshes, where he had intended that not only shotdd Pip be slain, but destroyed from off the face of the earth. (Another villain was to have planned... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1887 - 234 pages
...he learns who has been his unknown benefactor must be regarded as undoubtedly illustrating Dickens's favourite theme. But also the despised and thoroughly...been so thoroughly worked by a novelist as this pet theme of Dickens had been worked — and overworked, one would have said — in the stories I have... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1887 - 266 pages
...learns who has been his unknown benefactor must be regarded as undoubtedly illustrating Dickens's. favourite theme. But also the despised and thoroughly...Another villain was to have planned a similar end for hisvictim in Dickens's latest story. Never surely had any leading idea been sothoroughly worked by... | |
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Gargery, till he strikes her a death blow, and then long and patiently on Pip, till finally he succeeds in inveigling him to the lonely place by the marshes, where he had intended that not only should Pip be slain, but destroyed from off the face of the... 