Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges
By William Makepeace Thackeray
- Release Date: 1863-01-01
- Genre: Literary Criticism
It is still, perhaps, in possession of a success rather of esteem than of affection. A company of young men and maidens to whom it was not long ago submitted pronounced it (with one or two exceptions) inferior as a work of humour. The hitting of little Harry in the eye with a potato was, they admitted, humorous, but hardly anything else.
