...of his nature, a freedom which the taste of the next century forbade. As Thackeray regretfully 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." But the hand of Fielding is discernible in most humorous English fiction after...

...which preceded it (see sv Novel) . Thackeray's testimony is contained in his Preface to Pendennis : ' 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...

...the preface to Vol. II of Pendennis (November 26, 1850), appeared that famous passage which reads: "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." Seven months...

...confessions are so revealing of social mood and attitude. In another part of the same preface he states: "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...

...The changes of critical view come rapidly and unpredictably. Thackeray, who at one time declared : "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," nevertheless excluded Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem, "Lord Walter's Wife,"...

...threatened with suit as a "disorderly house." It is no wonder, then, that Thackeray confessed that "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...

...harmony. Perhaps the Victorian conventions were too much for him. In his preface to Pendennis he wrote: "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...

...Novel is a reproduction of the 5th edition, the last published in the Author's lifetime. Mr. Roscoe'a ta. Cantos i, ii. With Introduction and Notes. By...by F. Max Müller, t vols. 8vo. clotk, г is. The vole. NS 1 Since the author of Tom Jon«; was buried, no writer of fiction among ns has been permitted...

...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 .... You will not hear . . . what is the life and talk of your sons.' Any character...

...voices something that DC both desires and fears. Thackeray, in the Preface to Pendennis, lamented that 'since the author of Tom Jones was buried, no writer...of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to utmost power a MAN,' but Thackeray also showed himself to belong to that prudish formation when he...