Charles Dickens. Sidney Dark

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СКАЧАТЬ writer had ever attracted the love of his readers as Dickens attracted it. No professional writer was ever so deeply and genuinely mourned. He was buried in Westminster Abbey on the 14th of June, and for three days, Dean Stanley wrote, " there was a constant pressure on the spot, many flowers were strewn upon it by unknown hands, many tears shed from unknown eyes." Horace Greeley, writing of the grief in America, says: " The loss of no single man during the present generation, if we except Abraham Lincoln alone, has carried mourning into so many families." Carlyle has perhaps written his epitaph better than any other of his contemporaries: " A most cordial, sincere, clear-sighted, quietly decisive, just, and loving man. . . . The good, the gentle, high-gifted, ever friendly, noble Dickens, every inch of him an honest man."

      The characters he created are so real to us because they were real to him. " He laughed and wept with them, was as much elated by their fun as cast down by their grief, and brought to the consideration of them a belief in their reality as well as in the influences they were meant to exercise which in every circumstance sustained him."

      He was an affectionate father. " I hope," he wrote to one of his sons, " you will always be able to say in after life that you had a kind father." He was the most considerate and kindly of editors. He was the friend of his poorer neighbours, and never insulted them with patronage. He preached a gospel of brotherly love. He loved ghost stories and he loved children. He was a great dreamer and a great humorist.

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