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 not tolerate the Natural in our Art. The history of Pendennis - Seite vvon William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Austin Dobson - 1905 - 700 Seiten
...temper." Then he rebukes bis 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.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 846 Seiten
...story, I described a young man resisting and affected by temptation. My object was to say, that he liad the passions to feel, and the manliness and generosity...to know it — what moves in the real world, what ¡»asses in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 850 Seiten
...to feel, and the manliness and generosity to overcome them. You will not hear — it is besTTbTmow it— what moves in the real world, what passes in...mess-rooms, — what is the life and talk of your sons. £. little more frankness than js_customary lias been attempted in this story ; with" no bad desire... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1902 - 602 Seiten
...and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art. . . . You will not hear — it is best to know it — what...world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms — what is the life and talk of your sons." But Fielding could do more than depict to his... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1903 - 322 Seiten
...and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art. . . . You will not hear — it is best to know it — what...world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms — what is the life and talk of your sons." But Fielding could do more than depict to his... | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Lewis Melville, Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1903 - 62 Seiten
...bust fy Edgar Boehm) R, A. after the plaster cast by Joseph Durham In the National Portrait Gallery moves in the real world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, mess-rooms,—what is the life and talk of your sons. A little more frankness than is customary has... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 486 Seiten
...and the manliness and generosity to overcome them. You will not hear—it is best to know it—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. A little more frankness than is customary has... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 Seiten
...Natural in our art." And he cast up to his readers their insincerity and ostrich-like self-delusion. "You will not hear — it is best to know it — what moves in the real world." He was resolved they should hear it; and so he told them such blunt truths as that "the elder of Esmond's... | |
| Henry Fielding, Howard Maynadier - 1907 - 320 Seiten
...and give him a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art. . . . You will not hear — it is best to know it — what...world, what passes in society, in the clubs, colleges, newsrooms — what is the life and talk of your sons." But Fielding could do more than depict to his... | |
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