Yet *Another* Quote Game [First line game]

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:40 pm

Charles Dickens - Mr Gradgrind in Hard Times

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:43 pm

voralfred wrote:Well, if the last hint did not bring an answer in one week, it would probably not bring one later.

It would seem I stand corrected, if that answer is correct.

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:20 pm

MidasKnight wrote:Charles Dickens - Mr Gradgrind in Hard Times

That is indeed a Fact. And Facts, of course, are all I wanted too.
Another Fact: Your turn.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:27 pm

next quote:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I'm sure this is quite easy for some.

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:06 pm

The only Jane Austen book I've ever read: Pride and Prejudice.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:10 pm

Correct!

You're up!

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:04 pm

On those cloudy days, A B was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back.

A B is a name.

Post by **clong** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:36 pm

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Blackwing · Post by **Blackwing** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:33 am

Yes! Your turn.

Post by **clong** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:58 pm

I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Perhaps too obscure?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:23 am

An Essay on the Principle of Depopulation
by Thomas Robert Bienthus?

Bien=Good as opposed to Evil=... oh, you can look it up in any english/french dictionary....

I know Brad's old discarded roving-punster leotards, which he replaced by the new ones made by "La MÃ¨re Poulard" (yummy, yummy, omelets...) are several sizes too large for me, but I try, I try....

Post by **clong** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:21 pm

Not that obscure...

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:48 am

clong wrote:Not that obscure...

Obscure

Obscure, the great Thomas Robert Bienthus, who originated the celebrated theory of bienthusianism!

So much more famous than his evil doppelgÃ¤nger

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:33 am

Robinson Crusoe

Post by **clong** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 8:43 am

Think 18th Century British novel that you might have read in a college survey course... This novel is mentioned in such disparate sources as George Eliot's Middlemarch, Jane Austen's Emma, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Charlotte BrontÃ«'s The Professor and Villette, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther as well as his Dichtung und Wahrheit and in Dan Simmons recent novel The Terror.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:38 am

Well, I am not surprised it is from the 18th Century.
At that time there seemed to be a real fear of depopulation. In some of his works I did study in the final years of high school, Diderot did bring up feelings similar to those expressed in this quote (it might be in SupplÃ©ment au voyage de Bougainville , I am not sure, that was quite a few years ago).
Alas, if I did read some works by Voltaire and Diderot, I never read any British novel of that time, even in french translation... From the 19th Century on, yes, Dickens, BrontÃ« sisters, ...., but not earlier. And to remember what earlier work could have been mentioned in David Copperfield.. well, I do not have an eidetic memory

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:07 pm

I should know this since I'm more than familiar with 18th century British fiction. I'm also certain I've read but can't put my finger on it. I would honestly have guessed Fielding but I know it's not Tom Jones. Based on your hint, however, I will guess the infamous Pamela, or Virture Rewarded by Samuel Richardson, which is (unfavourably) referenced throughout the nineteenth century.

Post by **clong** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:35 pm

It is not Pamela (nor is it Shamela).

Zybahn · Post by **Zybahn** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:53 pm

Shamela, now that was a good, silly book.
Ok, I just spent too much time thinking about this. Something Eliza Haywood may have written but she wouldn't really be on many survey course lists.
How about Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders?

Post by **clong** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:13 am

It is not Moll Flanders.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:54 am

would our Founding Fathers pre-1776 count as British or American?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:21 pm

clong, do you want to give another hint?

Post by **clong** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 5:29 pm

The author of this work was an associate of Samuel Johnson, who once failed to emigrate to America because he missed a ferry.

MidasKnight · Post by **MidasKnight** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:27 pm

Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield

Post by **clong** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:02 pm

MidasKnight wrote:Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield

We have a winner....

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