The arrangement, moreover, serves to accentuate unnecessarily the undeniable Imparity of Thackeray's different books; for Punch and the Sketch Books are interposed between Barry Lyndon and Esmond; while even the wild and wicked Lyndon hardly deserved to be handcuffed in the same volume with Fitzboodle, whom in the body he would have crushed like an insect.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
Sibyll, between us there are not Imparity and obstacle.
"The Last Of The Barons, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton