 | 1880 - 556 Seiten
...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...of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. We must shape him, and give him a certain conventional temper." Then he rebukes... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 876 Seiten
...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...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. Societ}' will... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1892 - 558 Seiten
...Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. With Cruikshank's Illustrations. St. 6d. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Roscoe's Edition, with George Cruikshank's Illustrations. 2 vols. small post 8vo. 3s. 6d. each. Amelia. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. 5t. Gift (Theo.) Dishonoured.... | |
 | 1883 - 836 Seiten
...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...of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN. We must shape him, and give him a certain conventional temper." Then he rebukes... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 Seiten
...as shown in these first stories, with that of Thackeray. Thackeray was accustomed to lament that " since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer...of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost powers a man. . . . Society will not tolerate the natural in art." Under this yearning of... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 Seiten
...a striking illustration of this fact is afforded by our effeminate novels. Thackeray observes — " Since the author of ' Tom Jones ' was buried, no writer...of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost powers a man. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1885 - 326 Seiten
...confessions in literature is that contained in the preface to ' Pendennt*,' where 'I HACKERAY admits th-tt ' since the author of Tom Jones was buried no writer of fiction among us hns been permitted to depict to his utmost power a man." — on penalty, be it understood " (by GISSINO)... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1925 - 900 Seiten
...statues draped. In the melancholy preface to "Pendennis" Thackeray puts the case bitterly and forcibly: "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"; and the stunted conclusion of a tale so largely begun testifies to the benumbing... | |
 | 1889 - 172 Seiten
...Novel is a reproduction of the <;th edition, the last published in the Author's lifetime. Mr. Roscoe's Memoir has been revised for this edition, and, it...Edition, with George Cruikshank's Illustrations. 2 vols. ' Since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 534 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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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. 
