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...rs Elissa Malcohn, J.R. Tolkien, Andre Norton, Octavia Butler and Michael Crichton. They were writers from the old Earth, and to Laylah, they were ta...

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...d Spooney thought him a sort of Apollo; Dobbin took him to be an Admirable Crichton; and Mrs. Major O’Dowd acknowl- edged he was an elegant young fell... ...r. Sedley?” All Jos’s blood tingled with delight, as he surveyed this vic- tim to his attractions. A few adroit words, one or two knowing tender glanc... ... of that aban- doned wretch, I wonder, of whose vile arts he became a vic- tim, and of whom you used to be such an admirer? Yes, I 332 V anity Fair d...

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...able to that purpose. Lady Carbery insisted upon calling me her “Admirable Crichton;” and it was in vain that I demurred to this honorary title upon t... ...distinction. The splendor supposed to be connected with the attainments of Crichton I protested against, as altogether imaginary. How far that person ... ...man “admirable.” One felicitous ballad of forty lines might have enthroned Crichton as really admirable, whilst the pretensions actually put forward o...

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...shaking her head, her silence would throw me more heavily than the Admirable Crichton could have done in a verbal disputation for a purse of money. Co...

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... striking men to look at, hard to deceive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Am...

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... stuck to nothing else.’ ‘I dare say;—I dare say. Y ou may be an Admirable Crichton for what I know.’ ‘I have not intended to make any boast, sir, but... ...‘There seems to have come a lethargy upon the country,’ said the poor vic- tim. Then the Duke of St Bungay knew that his friend had read that pernicio...

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...incesses, just at the time when the two worst tyrants over the young King, Crichton and Livingstone, had fallen out, and he had been able to put himse...

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...stant and washman Arrick, a New Hebridee black boy, hired from the German firm; not so ugly as most, but not pretty neither; not so dull as his sort a...

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...d Spooney thought him a sort of Apollo; Dobbin took him to be an Admirable Crichton; and Mrs. Major O’Dowd acknowl- edged he was an elegant young fell...

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...age introduced into the discourse (not an absolute novelty, to the best of my remembrance of my reading), who had been personally known to the preache...

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...first he read was The Lancashire Witches, and then he read The Ad- mirable Crichton, and then many more. When- ever he started a book with two solitar...

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...rehend both sides of the Atlantic at once in this moment, and say, as Tiny Tim observes, “God bless us every one.” Speeches: Literary and Social 125 ... ...ort, the modern pre cept of education very often is, ‘T ake the Admirable Crichton for your model, I would have you ignorant of nothing.’ Now,” says ... ...hit’s Christmas day, and the wonted sympathy with the crippled child “Tiny Tim,” found prompt expression, and the general delight at hearing of Ebenez...

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...by R. Steele (E.E.T .S.), 1894, 1898. LIFE, ETC.: J. W. Blakesley, 1839; A Crichton (Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library), 1843; J. S. Blackie, Four Phases...

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...s. Theoretic kid- nappers and slave-drivers, they esteem each man the vic- tim of another, who winds him round his finger by know- ing the law of his ... ...zen long ago. She would never get anything done, if she suffered admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses. She loves better a wheelwright who dreams...

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... solute clearness of mind.” Memoirs of Alfred Tennyson, ii. 473. Sir James Crichton-Browne has given the technical name of “dreamy states” to these su... ...f perception which seems imminent but which never completes itself. In Dr. Crichton-Browne’s opinion they connect themselves with the perplexed and sc... ...wn: J. A. Symonds. a Biography, Lon- don, 1895, pp. 29-31, abridged. [230] Crichton-Browne expressly says that Symonds’s “highest nerve centres were i...

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... idea, irresistible, intense, of going to pay at the Museum a visit to Mr. Crichton. Mr. Crichton, as Mrs. Assingham could easily remember, was the mo... ... to sympathy by the more familiar view of the father and the daughter, Mr. Crichton had at both houses, though especially in Eaton Square, learned to ... ...our, under Mr. Crich ton’s protection, at the Museum. He had desired, Mr. Crichton, with characteristic kindness, after the wonderful show, after off... ...her’s birthday after my visit to the Museum, my appointment there with Mr. Crichton, of which I told you. It was shown me and I was struck with it and...