Selection of
Joseph Clayton Clark’s Caricature Prints (with captions)
URIAH HEEP
“I am well aware that I am the ‘umblest person
going, let
the other be where he may. My mother is likewise a very ‘umble
person.
We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have
much to be thankful for”
David Copperfield – chap. xvi
…. happened to entertain a violent and
deeply-rooted
antipathy to going near a police-office on any
ground or pretext
whatever.
Oliver Twist – chap xiii
…. With a certain condescending roll in his
voice, and
a certain indescribable air of doing something
genteel
David Copperfield – chap xi
Mr Squeers had but one eye, and the popular
prejudice runs
in favour of two … and when he smiled , his
expression
bordered closely on the villainous.
Nicholas Nickleby – chap iv
“There’s no such thing to be had here” cried
the dwarf.
“Water for lawyers! Melted lead and brimstone, you mean, nice
hot blistering pitch and tar – that’s the thing
for them”
Old Curiosity Shop – chap lxii
SAIREY GAMP
The face of Mrs Gamp – the nose in particular –
was somewhat
red
and swollen, and it was difficult to enjoy her society without
becoming conscious of a smell of spirits.
Martin Chuzzlewit – chap. xix
“If ever you’re attacked with the gout, sir,
jist you marry a
wider as has got a good voice, with a decent
notion of usin’ it,
and you’ll never have the gout agin”
Pickwick Papers
“There is no deception, ladies and gentleman,
all is peace,
a holy calm pervades me”
Martin Chuzzlewit – chap ii
SAM WELLER
“We eats our biled mutton without capers, and
don’t care
for horse-radish wen ve get beef”
Pickwick Papers – chap x
“Well, then, keep quiet” rejoined Sikes, with a growl like
that he was accustomed to use when addressing
his dog, “or I’ll
quiet you for a good long time to come”
Oliver Twist – chap xvi
“Do you know this here voice, Oliver? Ain’t you afraid of
it, sir?
Ain’t you a trembling while I speak, sir?”
Oliver Twist – chap vii