 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 1052 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... | |
 | Richard Burton - 1909 - 382 Seiten
...fashionable to do this than it now is. ^j A remark in the preface to " Pendennis " is full of suggestion : " Since the author of ' Tom Jones ' was buried, no writer of fiction among Ais has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a Man. We must drape him and give him a certain... | |
 | William Roughead - 1913 - 356 Seiten
...and gars them shak wi' fear. — The Farmer's Ingle, ROBERT FERGUSSON. THACKERAY once complained that since the author of Tom Jones was buried no writer of fiction has been permitted to depict a man. What, then, must be the plight of him who would show forth a veritable... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 Seiten
...to its conclusion. In the preface Thackeray avows his purpose to follow the example of Fielding. " 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." Fathers and mothers shall now hear what is going on in college and club, in... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 Seiten
...courtliness, and the desire of fame,! And love of truth, and all that makes a man. TEN., Guin., 4SO' 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. THACI, P en d. , P re f. (The author has man printed in capitals.) Note. Also... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1917 - 582 Seiten
...$1.50.) DUBLINERS. By James Joyce. (BW Huebsch; $1.50.) In the preface of "Pendennis" Thackeray says : " 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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 428 Seiten
...altogether acceptable to the next generation ; and Thackeray in the preface to Pendennis (1850) says : " 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." Fielding's example, however, in throwing aside conventional modes of characterization,... | |
 | John Albert Macy - 1922 - 348 Seiten
...island that lies east of Dublin. JAMES JOYCE JAMES JOYCE. IN the preface of "Pendennis" Thackeray says: "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... | |
 | 1924 - 138 Seiten
...260). Mr. Pynsent wird knapp geschildert. 1) Germ.-rom. Monatsschrift VI. <1914), 656. 2) Pend. XXXVI. »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 clrape him, and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will... | |
 | Edith Wharton - 1925 - 198 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... | |
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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. 
