 | 1851 - 778 pagina’s
...writer of fiction has been permitted to depict, to his utmost power, a man ; he must be draped, and have a certain conventional simper. Society will not tolerate the natural in our art ; many ladies hare remonstrated, and subscribers left me, because, in the course of the story, I described a young... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pagina’s
...v.-as buried, no writer of fiction among us has been permitted to depict to his utmost powers a num. We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional...Society will not tolerate the natural in our art.' This is rather too broadly stated, but society, no doubt, considers that it would not be beuelitcd... | |
 | Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pagina’s
...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...Society will not tolerate the natural in our art." And Dickens retorted in his boisterous way on certain critics who complained of the unnaturalness of... | |
 | 1887 - 548 pagina’s
...he said, no one had been allowed to depict to his utmost power a man : he must be draped and given a certain conventional simper. " Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art." He owns that he has been franker than was commonly thought convenient, but with no harm he hopes, and... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pagina’s
...Thackeray's words, "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...Society will not tolerate the Natural in our art." Perhaps in seeking for the Natural, the Fleshly School went too far. Perhaps Walt Whitman, the first... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pagina’s
...Thackeray's words, "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...Society will not tolerate the Natural in our art." Perhaps in seeking for the Natural, the Fleshly School went too far. Perhaps Walt Whitman, the first... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 pagina’s
...buried, no writer of fiction amongst us has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a man. We must drape him and give him a certain conventional...Society will not tolerate the natural in our art." This is putting as a revolution of last century what was a process through the whole period from 1750... | |
 | 1898 - 584 pagina’s
...most educated men,' hfc" startled the prudery of the public for whom he now finds himself writing. ' Many ladies have remonstrated, and ' subscribers left...a young man resisting and affected by temptation. Here, again, is another instance of the changes which rules of taste and convention may undergo in... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 850 pagina’s
...depict to his utmost powalfa MAN! \\e must drajw him, and give him a certain conventional~Blrnp"er. Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art....subscribers left me, because, in the course of the story, I describe! 1 a young man resisting and affected by temptation. My object was to say, that he had the... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1899 - 408 pagina’s
...has been permitted to depict to his utmost power a MAN," he said, in the preface to Pendennis. " We must drape him, and give him a certain conventional...because, in the course of the story, I described a young man*resisting and affected by temptation. My object was to say that he had the passions to feel, and... | |
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Since the author of Tom Jones was 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 simper. Society will not tolerate the Natural in our Art. 
