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CHARLES READE – English author & playwright – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE<\/div>\n


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\u201cBeauty is power; a smile is its sword.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles Reade<\/strong>, English author<\/p>\n

White Lies<\/em> (1869) Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., \u2018Household Edition,\u2019 1869, p. 15, column 2; online via University of California Libraries & Internet Archive, archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Fiction]:<\/p>\n

\u201cBeauty is power; a smile is its sword.<\/span> These two charming thrusts subdued if they did not destroy Publicola\u2019s wrath against the baroness, and his heart was now all on a glow.\u201d (p. 15, column 2)<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0White Lies<\/em> (1869) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/whiteliesnovel00readrich\/page\/14<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

“Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles Reade<\/strong>, English author<\/p>\n

A Good Fight, and Other Tales,<\/em> New York: Harper & Bros., p.3; online via Pennsylvania State University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>Note<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 While first published under the title \u201cA Good Fight\u201d in Reade\u2019s book and the literary magazine Once a Week<\/em> (2 July 1859), Reade extended and republished the story under the more widely-known title The Cloister and the Hearth\u00a0<\/em>in 1861. The quoted phrase appears as the first line in both the novel and the earlier short story.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Fiction \u2013 Chapter I. First lines of the story.]:<\/p>\n

“Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.<\/span> Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs, the greater part will never be known till that day, when many that are great shall be small, and the small great: but of others the world\u2019s knowledge may be said to sleep.\u201d (p. 3)<\/p>\n

Source notes<\/em><\/strong>: The quote also appeared in an excerpt of \u201cA Good Fight\u201d in the 2 July 1859 edition of the London periodical Once a Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[Source<\/em>: Charles Reade, \u201cA Good Fight\u201d (2 July 1859) Once A Week. An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, & Popular Information, Vol I, July to December 1859, London: Bradbury & Evans, p. 11, column 1; online via Cornell University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source]<\/span>: A Good Fight and Other Tales<\/em> (1859) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=2sE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3&dq=The+Good+Fight+%2B+Not+a+day+passes+over+the+earth+but+men+and+women+of+no+note+do+great+deeds,+speak+great+words,+and+suffer+noble+sorrows<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Once a Week<\/em> \u2013 July 1859]<\/span>: \u201cA Good Fight,\u201d in Once a Week<\/em> (2 July 1859) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=xJhAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=The+Good+Fight+%2B+Not+a+day+passes+over+the+earth+but+men+and+women+of+no+note+do+great+deeds,+speak+great+words,+and+suffer+noble+sorrows<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cT<\/strong>here is nothing like suffering to enlighten the giddy brain, widen the narrow mind, improve the trivial heart.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles Reade<\/strong>, English author<\/p>\n

A Simpleton<\/em> (1873) in A Simpleton, and The Wandering Heir<\/em>, Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., \u2018Household Edition,\u2019 1873, p. 111, column 2; online via University of Virginia & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Fiction. Quote appears in chapter XIII in the full-text edition.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cHer shallow nature deepened and deepened under this bereavement, of which, she said to herself, with a shudder, she was the cause. And this is the course of nature: there is nothing like suffering to enlighten the giddy brain, widen the narrow mind, improve the trivial heart.<\/span>\u201d (p. 111, column 2)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: A Simpleton<\/em> was also published as a serial in English and American monthly magazines. The chapter headings varied according to each publication.\u00a0 The cited quote was published in the following issues:<\/p>\n

Chapter XIV appeared in the April 1873 edition of London Society<\/em> magazine<\/p>\n

[Source<\/em>: Charles Reade, \u201cA Simpleton: A Story of the Day\u201d Chapter XIV (April 1873) London Society<\/em>, Vol. XXIII, No. CXXXVI,; in volume London Society, Vol. XXIII, London: London Society, p. 289, column 1; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter XIII appeared in the May 1873 edition of Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

[Source<\/em>: Charles Reade, \u201cA Simpleton: A Story of the Day\u201d Chapter XIII (May 1873) Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em>, Vol. XLVI, No. CCLXXVI, May 1873; in volume Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XLVI [December 1872 to May 1873], New York: Harper & Bros., 1873, p. 897, column 1; online via Cornell University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source<\/span>]: A Simpleton, and The Wandering Heir<\/em> (1873 James R. Osgood & Co.) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=prhUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111&dq=There+is+nothing+like+suffering+to+enlighten+the+giddy+brain,+widen+the+narrow+mind,+improve+the+trivial+heart<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Magazine serial \u2013 April 1873]<\/span>: \u201cA Simpleton: A Story of the Day\u201d Chapter XIV (April 1873) London Society<\/em>; online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=szJKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA289&dq=There+is+nothing+like+suffering+to+enlighten+the+giddy+brain,+widen+the+narrow+mind,+improve+the+trivial+heart<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Magazine serial \u2013 May 1873]<\/span>: \u201cA Simpleton: A Story of the Day\u201d Chapter XIII (May 1873) Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em>; online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Hoc7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA897&dq=There+is+nothing+like+suffering+to+enlighten+the+giddy+brain,+widen+the+narrow+mind,+improve+the+trivial+heart<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWell, every one for himself, and Providence for all of us \u2013 as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles Reade<\/strong>, English author<\/p>\n

A Simpleton<\/em> (1873) in A Simpleton, and The Wandering Heir<\/em>, Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., \u2018Household Edition,\u2019 1873, p. 101, column 1; online via University of Virginia & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Fiction]:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not ill \u2013 I am. He is paid to take care of me \u2013 I am not paid to take care of him,\u201d said the young lord, sententiously.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand,\u201d replied Fitzroy, dryly. \u201cWell, every one for himself, and Providence for all of us \u2013 as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens.<\/span>\u201d (p. 101, column 1)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: A Simpleton<\/em> was also published as a serial in English and American monthly magazines. The chapter headings varied according to each publication.\u00a0 The cited quote was published in the following issues:<\/p>\n

Chapter XIII appeared in the March 1873 edition of London Society<\/em> magazine<\/p>\n

[Source<\/em>: Charles Reade, \u201cA Simpleton: A Story of the Day\u201d Chapter XIV (March 1873) London Society<\/em>, Vol. XXIII, No. CXXXVI,; in volume London Society, Vol. XXIII, London: London Society, p. 198, column 1; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter XII appeared in the April 1873 edition of Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

[Source<\/em>: Charles Reade, \u201cA Simpleton: A Story of the Day\u201d Chapter XIII (April 1873) Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em>, Vol. XLVI, No. CCLXXVI, May 1873; in volume Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em>, Vol. XLVI [December 1872 to May 1873], New York: Harper & Bros., 1873, p. 744, column 2; online via Cornell University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source]<\/span>: A Simpleton, and The Wandering Heir<\/em> (1873 James R. Osgood & Co.) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=prhUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA101&dq=Well,+every+one+for+himself,+and+Providence+for+all+of+us+%E2%80%93+as+the+elephant+said+when+he+danced+among+the+chickens<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Magazine serial \u2013 March 1873]<\/span>: \u201cA Simpleton: A Story of the Day\u201d Chapter XIII (March 1873) London Society<\/em>; online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=szJKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA198&dq=Well,+every+one+for+himself,+and+Providence+for+all+of+us+%E2%80%93+as+the+elephant+said+when+he+danced+among+the+chickens<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Magazine serial \u2013 April 1873]<\/span>: \u201cA Simpleton: A Story of the Day\u201d Chapter XII (April 1873) Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em>; online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Iq46AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744&dq=Well,+every+one+for+himself,+and+Providence+for+all+of+us+%E2%80%93+as+the+elephant+said+when+he+danced+among+the+chickens<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Charles Reade\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n