Restoring the Lost Sense

From Thackerayana, 1875.

An illustration from Daylight Land by William Henry Harrison Murray (1888).  The caption reads: "We were too astonished at what we saw to say a word.  We stood an gazed in silent amazement."

From Récits d'un Touriste Auvergnat by Jean Baptiste Maurice Bielawski, 1887.

"The child of the symbol," from Sebastiani's Secret by S. E. Waller, 1897.

"Dans un pas-seul il exprime son extréme desespoir," from The Oxford Thackeray.

Here's some Droste effect from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees, 1892.  We're reminded of a scene with Matt Berry in The IT Crowd (below).

Sappho from Comic History of Greece by Charles M. Snyder, 1898.

"Discussing turnips," from Roughing It by Mark Twain.

"A witch taking Scotchmen to London," from Our Country by Benson John Lossing, 1875.

An illustration from When Life is Young by Mary Elizabeth Dodge (1894).

"Doleful begins to feel uneasy."  And Uneasy perhaps exclaims to Doleful, "Get your hand off me!"  From Handley Cross by Robert Smith Surtees, 1892.

"I seed a passing of a many shadders," from Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville and illustrated by M. Nisbet, 1897.

From What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship 'Beagle', 1879.

"Gradually, however, they assumed a darker and more mysterious character."  From The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott and illustrated by Fred Pegram, 1898.

"The chair was an ugly old gentleman; and what was more, he was winking at Tom Smart."  From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

Here's more proof that everyone's an art critic: "This is a terrible piece of work," from The Lost Gold of the Montezumas by William Osborne Stoddard, 1897.

"Arise!  Arise!"  From The Decameron of a Hypnotist by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1898.

"I will bury myself in my books, and the devil may pipe to his own."  From Maud by Alfred Tennyson, 1878.

From Thackerayana, 1875.