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Dickens' poor optimist
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micawber
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Micawber is a 2001 ITV comedy drama series starring David Jason . It was written by John Sullivan , based upon the character of Wilkins Micawber from Charles Dickens ' novel David Copperfield , although the storylines were original. Sullivan had originally ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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as a type of a childishly impractical man living in optimistic fantasy, from the character of Wilkins Micawber in Dickens' "David Copperfield" (1850).\n\n"I am at present, my dear Copperfield, engaged in the sale of corn upon commission. It is not an avocation ...
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The springs of his decrepit Morris Minor, the one he called Micawber, complained as he eased it over humps and hollows.
Angus thanked him, piled the sacks into the boot of Mr Micawber and drove home with windows open, mouth shut and nostrils puckered.
He urged Micawber over the pot-holes, stopped with a lurch at his cottage and ran inside.
Driving Micawber back to Luachraich he found himself clamping his teeth hard enough to break them.
Dickens came into his own as he chirped and twittered and then dropped his voice to moan like a walrus, all the while both telling about this Micawber fellow and, apparently, emulating him.
It is true that the humour of Micawber is good literature and that the pathos of little Nell is bad.
So Angus returned Sheila to the paddock and drove the technicolor Mr Micawber to the big house.
So, on a Thursday evening Angus packed Mr Micawber, threw his sleeping bag in the back, and headed South.
At last, in gathering dusk, and with Jackson at the wheel, the whole gang bounced down Glen Fionart in the van to where Angus had left Micawber in a lay-by off the main road.
He sat in Micawber with the briefcase on the seat beside him and its contents spread on his knee.
And now, the following morning, which though grey, hinted at sunlight to come, he swung Micawber across the halfmoon of gravel in front of its facade, and confirmed the accuracy of the Rev.
Squaring up to this new test of initiative Angus drove Mr Micawber to Fioneriska House and then up the North track to the boathouse.
Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with.
MICAWBER (who gracefully bowed her acknowledgements from the side-door, where a galaxy of beauty was elevated on chairs, at once to witness and adorn the gratifying scene), Mrs.
Micawber, still more argumentatively, 'being equally out of the question, Mr.