 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 392 strani
...not show as they are, with the notorious foibles and selfishness of their lives and their education. Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer...been permitted to depict, to his utmost power, a MAN. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 448 strani
...foibles and selfishness of their lives and their education. Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, uo writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. "VVe must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural... | |
 | 1851 - 518 strani
...selfishness of their lives and their education. Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, nowriter of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural... | |
 | 1851 - 778 strani
...compounding of bigamy. In short, we dont take kindly to Pen. Mr. Thackeray says, what is very true, that " Since the author of ' Tom Jones' was buried, no writer of fiction has been permitted to depict, to his utmost power, a man ; he must be draped, and have a certain conventional... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 796 strani
...compounding of bigamy. In short, we dont take kindly to Fen. Mr. Thackeray says, what is very true, that " Since the author of ' Tom Jones' was buried, no writer of fiction has been permitted to depict, to his utmost power, a man ; he must be draped, and hare a certain conventional... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 594 strani
...Natural in our Art" restrained him from speaking as boldly as he desired, and where he laments that since the author of "Tom Jones" was buried, no writer...been permitted to depict to his utmost power a Man. There is rife amongst us a spirit of pedantry (not less contemptible than that which for generations... | |
 | 1860 - 64 strani
...stating that it is then only that they become dramatic and entertaining. In another place he says, " Since the author of ' Tom Jones' was buried, no -writer...been permitted to depict to his utmost power a man. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper." A better reason is, that only by the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 522 strani
...cannot show as they are, with the notorious foibles and selfishness of their lives and their education. Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer...been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1879 - 224 strani
...those we cannot show as they are with the notorious selfishness of their time and their education. Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer...been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. We must shape him, and give him a certain conventional temper." Then he rebukes his audience because... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 456 strani
...cannot show as they are, with the notorious foibles and selfishness of their lives and their education. Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer...been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural... | |
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Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. 
