Template:RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Charles Dickens's work Sketches by Boz (1st series, 1st edition, 1836; 2nd series, 1st edition, 1837; and new edition, 1839). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at Google Books and the HathiTrust Digital Library:

• 1st series (1836):
  • Volume I (archived at the Internet Archive).
  • Volume II (archived at the Internet Archive).
• 2nd series (1837; archived at the Internet Archive).
• New edition (1839; archived at the Internet Archive).

The template takes the following parameters:

• |edition= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the new edition (1839), specify |edition=new.
• |series= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 2nd series (1837), specify |series=2. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st series (1836).
• |1= or |volume= – mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 1st series (1836), the volume number quoted from must be specified in uppercase Roman numerals, either |volume=I or |volume=II.
• |2= or |title= – mandatory: the title of the story quoted from.
• |chapter= – if the story quoted from is divided into chapters, use this parameter to specify the chapter number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals.
• |3= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to an online version of the work.

• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

1st series (1836)

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz|volume=II|title=The Steam Excursion|page=310|passage=It had been "'''spitting'''" with rain for the last half-hour, and now it began to pour in good earnest.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz|II|The Steam Excursion|310|It had been "'''spitting'''" with rain for the last half-hour, and now it began to pour in good earnest.}}
• Result:
  • 1834 October, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “The Steam Excursion”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. , volume II, London: John Macrone, , published 1836, →OCLC, page 310:

    It had been "spitting" with rain for the last half-hour, and now it began to pour in good earnest.

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz|volume=II|title=The Steam Excursion|pages=305–306|pageref=305|passage=Then there was {{...}} a vast deal of screwing and tightening, and '''winding''' and tuning, during which Mrs. Briggs expatiated to those near her on the immense difficulty of playing a guitar, and hinted at the wondrous proficiency of her daughters in that mystic art.}}
• Result:
  • 1834 October, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “The Steam Excursion”, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. , volume II, London: John Macrone, , published 1836, →OCLC, pages 305–306:

    Then there was […] a vast deal of screwing and tightening, and winding and tuning, during which Mrs. Briggs expatiated to those near her on the immense difficulty of playing a guitar, and hinted at the wondrous proficiency of her daughters in that mystic art.

2nd series (1837)

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz|series=2|title=The Streets by Night|page=19|passage=The Streets of London, to be beheld in the very height of their glory, should be seen on a dark, dull, '''murky''', winter's night, when there is just enough damp gently stealing down to make the pavement greasy without cleansing it of any of its impurities, {{...}}}}
• Result:
  • 1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “The Streets by Night”, in Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, , →OCLC, page 19:

    The Streets of London, to be beheld in the very height of their glory, should be seen on a dark, dull, murky, winter's night, when there is just enough damp gently stealing down to make the pavement greasy without cleansing it of any of its impurities, […]

New edition (1839)

• Wikitext: {{RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz|edition=new|title=The Tuggs's at Ramsgate|page=327|passage=he and Mr. Joseph Tuggs, and Miss Charlotta Tuggs, and Mr. Cymon Tuggs, with their eight feet in a corresponding number of yellow shoes, seated themselves on four rush-bottomed chairs, which, being placed in a soft part of the sand, forthwith sunk down some two feet and a half. {{...}} Mr. Cymon, by an exertion of great personal strength, '''uprooted''' the chairs, and removed them further back.}}
• Result:
  • 1839, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “The Tuggs’s at Ramsgate”, in Sketches by “Boz” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. , new edition, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, page 327:

    [S]he and Mr. Joseph Tuggs, and Miss Charlotta Tuggs, and Mr. Cymon Tuggs, with their eight feet in a corresponding number of yellow shoes, seated themselves on four rush-bottomed chairs, which, being placed in a soft part of the sand, forthwith sunk down some two feet and a half. […] Mr. Cymon, by an exertion of great personal strength, uprooted the chairs, and removed them further back.