 The humourous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness — your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture — your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...  The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations - Pagina 460door William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1854 - 718 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture — your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...himself to be the week-day preacher, so to speak.' Now, it is difficult to say what moral writer does not come within so capacious a definition as this.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture — your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...to mark other people's lives and peculiarities, we moralise upon his life when he is gone — and yesterday's preacher becomes the text for to-day's sermon.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture — your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...speaks, and feels the truth best, we regard him, esteem bim — sometimes love him. And, as his business is to mark other people's lives and peculiarities,... | |
 | 1853 - 436 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture—your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the; unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...the ordinary actions and passions of life almost. Ho takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher, so to speak. Accordingly, as he finds, and speaks,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture — your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...to mark other people's lives and peculiarities, we moralise upon his life when he is gone — and yesterday's preacher becomes the text for to-day's sermon.... | |
 | 1854 - 788 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension. imposture — your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...the ordinary actions and passions of life almost." And a'fterwards, in his lecture on Charity and Humour, carries out the definition — " I am sure,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture — your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...we regard him, esteem him — sometimes love him." In discussing the opinion of those who, Schiller among them, have considered the r in comica to be... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture—your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...life almost. He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher—so to speak. Accordingly, as he finds, and speaks, and feels the truth best, we regard him,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 pagina’s
...scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture — vour tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. To the best of his means and ability he comments...passions of life almost. He takes upon himself to be the week-da; preacher — so to speak. Accordingly, as he finds, and speaks, and feel the truth best, we... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1915 - 878 pagina’s
...untruth, pretension, imposture ; your tenderness for the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the unhappy. He takes upon himself to be the weekday preacher so...and feels the truth best, we regard him, esteem him — and sometimes love him.' When all is said and done Thackeray's appeal to English men rests not... | |
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