"Come alive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an unkindly criticism, but my abiding trouble with Broken Colour (LANE) was an inability to get any of the characters, with perhaps one exception, to come alive or behave otherwise than as parts of a thoroughly nice-mannered and unsensational story. Perhaps it was my own fault. Mr. HAROLD OHLSON (whose previous book I liked) has obviously, perhaps a little too obviously, done his best for these people. It is a tale of two rivalries: ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 22, 1920 • Various |
