| Affectionate and needy, Thackeray had nurtured Anny's talents, and used her as his amanuensis. |
| Don't you get up every morning meaning to prove you're equal to Balzac or Thackeray? |
| Thackeray evidently thought that this was too good a subplot to be used only once in English fiction. |
| Again, Thackeray contributed the notes and critical apparatus to Cruikshank's version. |
| And the urbane ease and flowing rhythms of Thackeray are preferable to the baphometic verbal baptisms of Carlyle the Boanerges. |
| He adds that Thackeray expressed a wish, which he allowed Cruikshank to sterilise, to print the ballad with illustrations. |
