Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Injustice breeds injustice
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some
The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,--they do, thank God!
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Guildhall Library, London (UK)
Wed, 25th April 2012 - Wed, 25th April 2012
Between 1840 and 1860 the ways character got represented on page and stage changed dramatically. Comparing Browne’s portrait of the provincial Pecksniff family to Millais’s image of the London lawyer Mr. Furnival and his wife illustrates alterations in the verbal, visual, and theatrical vocabularies of personality. From steel plates etched in a caricature tradition to wood engravings imaging mid-Victorian realism, these pictures, like the texts they illustrate, speak in different ways to audiences who assess character according to different signs. This talk will be delivered by Professor Robert L Patten of Rice University Texas. The talk is free but booking is essential. This event is part of the City of London's programme of events to celebrate Dickens.
