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| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 392 Seiten
...attempt to describe one of them, no better nor worse than most educated men — even these we can not show as they are, with the notorious foibles and selfishness...world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness than is customary has... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 446 Seiten
...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...world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, news'-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness than is customary... | |
| 1851 - 518 Seiten
...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...world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, news-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness than is customary has... | |
| 1851 - 778 Seiten
...passions to feel, and the honesty and manliness to resist them. You will not hear it ; it is beat not to know it ; what moves in the real world ; what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms ; what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more freedom than is customary, has been... | |
| University magazine - 1851 - 796 Seiten
...passions to feel, and the honesty and manliness to resist them. You will not hear it ; it is best not to know it ; what moves in the real world ; what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms ; what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more freedom than is customary, has been... | |
| 1851 - 838 Seiten
...passions to feel, and the honesty and manliness to resist them. You will not hear it ; it is best not to know it ; what moves in the real world ; what passes in society, in the clulis, colleges, newsrooms ; what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more freedom than is... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1879 - 224 Seiten
...temper." Then he rebukes his audience because they will not listen to the truth. "You will not hear what moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms—what is the life and talk of your sons." You want the Raffaellistic touch, or that of... | |
| 1880 - 556 Seiten
...temper." Then he rebukes his audience because they will not listen to the truth. "You will not hear what moves in the real world, what passes in society,...mess-rooms — what is the life and talk of your sons." You want the Raffaellistic touch, or that of some painter of horrors equally removed from the truth.... | |
| 1883 - 836 Seiten
...temper." Then he rebukes his audience because they will not listen to the truth. " You will not hear what moves in the real world, what passes in society,...mess-rooms — what is the life and talk of your sons." You want the Raffaellistic touch, or that of some painter of horrors equally removed from the truth.... | |
| 1887 - 548 Seiten
...suggested no doubt rather by a sense of courtesy than a consciousness of error. And when he goes on to say, "You will not hear — it is best to know it — what...mess-rooms — what is the life and talk of your sons," is he thereby implying that he would like to write it, that it ought to be written ? Surely not : surely... | |
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