description: But, my dear madam, it is so very large a majority of your fellow-countrymen that are of this insignificant stamp. At least eighty out of a hundred of your adult male fellow-Britons returned in the last census are neither extraordinarily silly, nor extraordinarily wicked, nor extraordinarily wise; their eyes are neither deep and liquid with sentiment, nor sparkling with suppressed witticisms; they have probably had no hairbreadth escapes or thrilling adventures; their brains are certainly not pregnant with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano.
language: English
title: The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton
titlecomplete: The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton
genres: Fiction, European Literature, English Literature, British Literature, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Novella, Literary Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 297
series: Scenes of Clerical Life
publisher: Read How You Want