单词 | Bulwer-Lytton |
例句 | In Week 1411 the Empress asked for a bad final sentence or two to a novel, a counterpart to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad opening sentences. Style Invitational Week 1415: The Year in Redo, Part 1 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Dark and Stormy The winners of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest have been announced. The Songs of Angry Men: Nunn and Mackintosh Spar Over 'Les Miz' Revival 2010-06-30T14:58:00Z Having written a definitive last encounter between Pip and Estella, Dickens was persuaded by his friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton to lighten it a little, offer a glimmer of hope for the disillusioned pair. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z The contest, founded by Rice in 1982, is named for the 19th-century writer Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who penned the notorious line: "It was a dark and stormy night." Seattle mom honored as a really bad writer 2010-06-30T12:23:00Z San Jose State University said Tuesday that Molly Ringle of Seattle was the grand prize winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Seattle writer wins 2010 bad writing contest 2010-06-29T17:41:00Z In this year when we've heard so much about Dickens, we haven't heard nearly enough about his forceful, energetic, spectacularly untalented friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Review Christmas quiz 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:12Z My first irritation is with the assumption that Bulwer-Lytton is the worst writer in history. Can you spot a Charles Dickens sentence? 2013-03-25T15:04:14Z But there was more to Bulwer-Lytton than this one sentence. Can you spot a Charles Dickens sentence? 2013-03-25T15:04:14Z No. 1 is probably closest to a softball — lots of trivia nerds might recognize Bulwer-Lytton as the author who penned the now-cliched opener, “It was a dark and stormy night.” Q: Their job is to stump you. Who are they? A: Trivia writers, of course. 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z And as for any future Bulwer-Lytton entrants, a little tip from this year's winner. The Bulwer-Lytton award for brilliantly bad starts 2012-08-22T15:53:33Z Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton"It was a dark and stormy night …" Bulwer-Lytton's bestseller features a would-be gentleman who becomes a highwayman. John Mullan's 10 of the best: highwaymen 2012-05-18T21:54:02Z But the most joyfully ridiculous of the literary prizes must, surely, be the Bulwer-Lytton. The Bulwer-Lytton award for brilliantly bad starts 2012-08-22T15:53:33Z Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the novelist and playwright who founded the Guild of Literature and Art with Dickens, is remembered now only as a figure of fun. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z In 2000, Mr. Dahl was a grand prize winner in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for dreadful prose. Gary Dahl, inventor of 1970s fad the Pet Rock, dies at 78 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Dahl, a resident most recently of Jacksonville, was also vastly proud of having won, in 2000, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which honors deliberately dreadful prose. Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The English words "The pen is mightier than the sword" were first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, in his historical play Cardinal Richelieu. Who first said 'The pen is mightier than the sword'? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Of course I am not comparing Bulwer-Lytton with Dickens. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Miss Mitford and Bulwer-Lytton had written "dramatic scenes." Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Bulwer-Lytton, in writing Money, recognized this: And principally with regard to Act 5 I don’t feel easy. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The word “Cockney” says Bulwer-Lytton, signifies the “archetype of the Londoner east of Temple Bar, and is as grotesquely identified with the Bells of Bow as Quasimodo with those of Notre Dame.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z In addition, Bulwer-Lytton is credited with popularising the term "the great unwashed" which he used in the same novel. Who first said 'The pen is mightier than the sword'? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Bulwer-Lytton has more than once drawn to the best of his power a gentleman, and he has often drawn, or tried to draw, a man possessed by some great, impersonal, unselfish object in life. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z In 1846 Bulwer-Lytton collected a number of his prose-essays under the title Sketches of Life, to which a memoir of the author was prefixed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Just this difficulty troubled Bulwer-Lytton when he was preparing for Richelieu. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z In 1867 appeared what might be construed into an attempt at reparation by Bulwer-Lytton. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z But Bulwer-Lytton was not necessarily the first to express this thought. Who first said 'The pen is mightier than the sword'? 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Now, I think it to the credit of Bulwer-Lytton, as a mere artist, that he did include such figures even in his wax-work gallery. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The names of Thackeray, George Eliot, Kingsley, and Bulwer-Lytton are all erased. How to Form a Library, 2nd ed Bulwer-Lytton had not yet found the dramatic centre in his material. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z He had, as Bulwer-Lytton has remarked, the first requisite of a good critic, a good heart. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Follow these instructions if you would like to have your own copy of this index and all the volumes of The Works Of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, on your hard disk. The Works Of Edward Bulwer-Lytton A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions Whatever new schools of fiction came into existence, Bulwer-Lytton, always directing the new ideas into the channel where popular and elementary sympathies flowed freely, succeeded in turning each change to advantage, and keeping his place. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z O tendency of our age, to look on Isis as the milch cow!—Bulwer-Lytton. Pearls of Thought Writing to Macready of Money, Bulwer-Lytton said of his play, “At the end of Act in your closing speech, will you remember to say, you ‘would’ refuse me ten pounds to spend on benevolence. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Even Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who loved himself very much, showed in his translations of "The Odes and Epodes" that he could almost love something as well as himself. Confessions of a Book-Lover Bulwer-Lytton, for example, whose "Paul Clifford" is a very improper book to go into the hands of young people, has written at least a dozen other fictions of noble moral purpose, and high literary merit. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Dickens sprang up and founded a school; and yet Bulwer-Lytton held his own. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Thirsting for the golden fountain of the fable, from how many streams have we turned away, weary and in disgust!—Bulwer-Lytton. Pearls of Thought Bulwer-Lytton met this difficulty in writing Money: I think in the first 3 acts you will find little to alter. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Such, in days gone by, had been the practice of Bulwer-Lytton, and, as far as one can see, of Macaulay. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography All of them admitted Bulwer-Lytton and Wilkie Collins, all but two Oliver Optic's books, and all but six Augusta Evans Wilson's. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Thackeray arose and established a new school, and Bulwer-Lytton, whom no human being would have thought of comparing with either as a man of genius, did not lose a reader. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z But it is of sufficient dramatic interest to cause Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Robert Browning each to use it also as the subject for a poem. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year Bulwer-Lytton faced this difficulty in writing Money: I think in the first 3 acts you will find little to alter. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z While the college pedagogues of the Brander Matthews type still worshipped the dead bones of Scribe and Sardou, Robertson and Bulwer-Lytton, he preached the new and revolutionary gospel of Ibsen. A Book of Prefaces Dear Thackeray came in his happiest mood, And stayed until midnight was done, Bulwer-Lytton, and Reade, and Kingsley and Hood, And Dickens, the master of fun. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Bulwer-Lytton looked at the matter in quite a different light. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z "Well told and dramatically strong, it breathes again the spirit of Dumas and Bulwer-Lytton." The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) At one time Bulwer-Lytton thought seriously of changing what is now Scene 1, 125 Act I, of his Richelieu, an interior, to an exterior scene. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Bulwer-Lytton tells the story, with probably a close regard for the facts. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists He prints, here and there, letters from entirely prosaic persons which tally, often to a surprising degree, with the extravagant statements of Bulwer-Lytton. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters "Easy writing is cursed hard reading," is a maxim which Bulwer-Lytton fully understood, and of which he showed his appreciation in his personal practice. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z At Sir Walter's death Bulwer-Lytton was in full career. Studies in Early Victorian Literature The Virginius of Sheridan Knowles and the Richelieu of Bulwer-Lytton were both framed upon the Elizabethan model, and carried the platform drama down to recent times. The Theory of the Theatre "Not So Bad As We Seem," by Bulwer-Lytton, was played at Devonshire House in the presence of the Queen, Dickens taking the principal part. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great No biographical notices of Bulwer-Lytton even touch on this subject, which has been hitherto abandoned to the gossip of irresponsible contemporaries. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters So of the sympathies which heroes and heroines, aspirations and agonies of the style of Bulwer-Lytton awaken in us. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z When Bulwer-Lytton brought out his play Not so Bad as we Seem, his friends pleasantly altered its title to Not so Good as we Expected. Collections and Recollections The only person there was one who interested me more than the scarlet patriot, Bulwer-Lytton the First. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Take Xantippe, for example, and Shakespeare's wife, and—and—well, there was Byron, and Bulwer-Lytton, and ever so many others. The Damnation of Theron Ware The giants of popular fiction did, indeed, enjoy larger single successes than Bulwer-Lytton did, but none of them, not Dickens himself, was so uniformly successful. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters There are, moreover, two points of superiority in artistic purpose which may be claimed for Bulwer-Lytton over either Dickens or Thackeray. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z In the lives of two of these, Bulwer-Lytton and Benjamin Disraeli, there are interesting parallels. A History of English Literature Among my pleasantest reminiscences were the partly amateur and partly professional entertainments that took place at the celebrated seat of the distinguished author, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, about the year 185-. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) But, as Bulwer-Lytton has suggested in his "Strange Story," the wood of certain trees to which magical properties are ascribed may in truth possess virtues little understood, and deserving of careful investigation. The Folk-lore of Plants Bulwer-Lytton, with all his ardour and his generosity, was devoid of the gift of sympathy. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters A statesman Bulwer-Lytton never became, although he held high office in a Tory Cabinet. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Here is this group of desiccated Victorians, upholders of the ethics of Mr. Pickwick, and the artistic theories of Bulwer-Lytton. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Of course, Mr. Bulwer-Lytton lived too early to know him, or he wouldn't have conferred that sobriquet upon Warwick. Sixes and Sevens Edward Bulwer-Lytton gave us the slogan "The pen is mightier than the sword." The Civilization of Illiteracy It would have preserved a chance of happiness for Bulwer-Lytton to possess something of this stranger's clairvoyance. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters So Bulwer-Lytton wrote "Richelieu," "Money," and the "Lady of Lyons"—the last probably the most successful acting drama produced in England since the days of Shakespeare, and the first hardly below it in stage success. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z This is the sort of success, this and none other, which I believe Bulwer-Lytton to have achieved. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Now this inarticulate orator, this Demosthenes without the pebble-training, was, as my readers have already guessed, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, then a baronet and a member of the House of Commons, now a peer. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Nearly a whole generation before the winning of that late success, Bulwer-Lytton had tried the House of Commons, and miserably, ludicrously failed. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Bulwer-Lytton never secured the ungrudging praise of the best judges, but he attained great popularity, and has even now not wholly lost it. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters In this sense Bulwer-Lytton has undoubtedly a more comprehensive mind than any of his English contemporaries. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Between his failure and his triumph Bulwer-Lytton may be said to have had no political audience. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Bulwer-Lytton alone among all famous English authors of our days has apparently done all that he could possibly do—obtained from his faculties their entire tribute. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z No such fault could possibly be found with Bulwer-Lytton. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Almost to the end Bulwer-Lytton was engaged in struggle. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Bulwer-Lytton was born on the fringe of the aristocratic region. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z There really is no scandal in alluding to a conjugal quarrel which was brought so persistently under public notice by one of the parties as that between Bulwer-Lytton and his wife. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z He liked Bulwer-Lytton, and their relations became very cordial and lasted for some years; Arnold has given an amusing, but very sympathetic, account of the dignified hospitalities of Knebworth. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters When, in 1866, all the furies of the Press fell shrieking on Poems and Ballads, Bulwer-Lytton took a very generous step. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Torn between his duty and his filial affection, Bulwer-Lytton now passed through a period of moral agony. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Bulwer-Lytton had advanced tolerably far upon his career when he inherited through his mother a magnificent estate, which enabled him to set up for an aristocrat. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z One hundred and twenty years have nearly passed since the birth of Bulwer-Lytton, and he continues to be suspended in a dim and ambiguous position in the history of our literature. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Bulwer-Lytton would not have been himself if he had not overflowed into reflections which swelled his valuable account of his childhood into monstrous proportions. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Rosina fretted herself into what she contrived to have reported to Bulwer-Lytton as an illness. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters But in the case of Bulwer-Lytton this refractive habit of his imagination produced a greater swerving aside from positive truth than is usual. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters In one peculiarity, at least, Bulwer-Lytton the novelist surpassed all his rivals and contemporaries. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Miss Wheeler, not unnaturally stung to anger, used disrespectful expressions regarding Mrs. Bulwer-Lytton, and these bickerings filled the lover and son with indignation. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Mrs. Bulwer-Lytton fought fiercely to the last, and Edward determined to close the matter; on August 29th, 1827, he married Rosina. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters The new conditions were clearly stated to old Mrs. Bulwer-Lytton, but that formidable lady belonged to an earlier generation, and saw no reason for Quixotic behaviour. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Neither Bulwer-Lytton nor Rosina could give an accurate history of their relations at the beginning, because the mind of each was prejudiced by their knowledge of the end. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters I take it for granted that Mr. Morris's sad hero, "The Man who never Laughed Again," must have been frivolity itself when compared with Bulwer-Lytton at work upon a novel. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Cut off from all support by the implacable anger of old Mrs. Bulwer-Lytton, they depended on a combined income of £380 a year and whatever the husband could make to increase it. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Bulwer-Lytton immediately, and apparently without the slightest difficulty, developed a literary industry the sober record of which approaches the fabulous. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters But the snare was set in vain before the eyes of so shrewd a bird as Bulwer-Lytton; he declined to see the lady, but he kept her amazing letters. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters His task, however, was further complicated by the circumstance that Bulwer-Lytton himself left in MS. an autobiography, dealing very fully with his own career and character up to the age of twenty-two. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Bulwer-Lytton won a great name partly because he was not a man of genius. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z This was written with full experience, as the names of Tennyson and Browning will remind us, for Bulwer-Lytton was slow to admit the value of these younger talents. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Matthew Arnold appeared to Bulwer-Lytton to have "brought together all that is most modern in sentiment, with all that is most scholastic in thought and language." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters That was the attitude of the higher criticism to Bulwer-Lytton from, let us say, 1830 to 1860; he was "a horrid puppy" and he was also "dull." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters It is written with deliberate candour, and recalls the manner of Cobbett, a writer with whom we should not expect to find Bulwer-Lytton in sympathy. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters |
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