Ryecroft

Ryecroft obtains the mastery, and I feel one in spirit with that lonely analyst of disillusions.

Apologia Diffidentis 1905

_Christopherson_ is a delicious expansion of a mood indicated in _Ryecroft_ (Spring xii.), and _A Capitalist_ indicates the growing interest in the business side of practical life, the dawn of which is seen in _The Town Traveller_ and in the discussion of Dickens's potentialities as a capitalist.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

The sense of it enables us to understand to the full that semi-ironical and bitter, yet not wholly unamused passage, in _Ryecroft_: --

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

; _Ryecroft_, Autumn xix.; the short, not superior, novel called

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

This superb piece of imaginative prose, of which Shorthouse himself might have been proud, [9] is recalled by an answering note in _Ryecroft_, in which he says, 'I owe many a page to the street-organs.'

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

He makes no attempt at the rich colouring of Kingsley or Blackmore, but, as page after page of _Ryecroft_ testifies twelve years later, he is a perfect master of the _aquarelle_.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

Ryecroft_ (1903); not far below any of which must be rated four others,

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

Ryecroft_, which to my mind remains a legacy for Time to take account of as the faithful tribute of one of the truest artists of the generation he served.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

Far otherwise was it with _Ryecroft_, which represents, as it were, the _summa_ of Gissing's habitual meditation, aesthetic feeling and sombre emotional experience.

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

The West Midlands Police officer, in his 20s, had to be removed from the patrol car with a neck brace and spinal board after losing control in Coalpool Lane, Ryecroft, Walsall.

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