M. Thackeray: Review of Taine's Critical Study of Thackeray. Cut from English Woman's Domestic Magazine, 1866. [167].1866 |
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202. oldal
... French literature , that our in- sular prejudices blinded us alike to its beauties and its blemishes , that its caustic wit and subtle humour , its passionate senti- ment and profound philosophy , were altogether unappre- ciated in ...
... French literature , that our in- sular prejudices blinded us alike to its beauties and its blemishes , that its caustic wit and subtle humour , its passionate senti- ment and profound philosophy , were altogether unappre- ciated in ...
206. oldal
... French critic , who has taken up a volume by " Boz , " we hear him discoursing on Mr. Dickens , and repeat a little of what we hear . miles of hedge - divided country , with the distant fringe of trees as obvious as the scarecrow in the ...
... French critic , who has taken up a volume by " Boz , " we hear him discoursing on Mr. Dickens , and repeat a little of what we hear . miles of hedge - divided country , with the distant fringe of trees as obvious as the scarecrow in the ...
207. oldal
... French taste , always within bounds , revolts against these affectations , protests against these unnatural pranks . But with Dickens it is not affectation -- it is natural ; he has not sought the ideas -they have presented themselves ...
... French taste , always within bounds , revolts against these affectations , protests against these unnatural pranks . But with Dickens it is not affectation -- it is natural ; he has not sought the ideas -they have presented themselves ...
208. oldal
... French society would be disgusted with his phrases - there is about them an affectation which smacks more of vice than virtue - fanfaronade of immorality . Frenchmen , according to M. Taine , have had their hypocrites , but it was when ...
... French society would be disgusted with his phrases - there is about them an affectation which smacks more of vice than virtue - fanfaronade of immorality . Frenchmen , according to M. Taine , have had their hypocrites , but it was when ...
209. oldal
... French character . They are the produce of English soil , of thoroughly British institutions , and they represent our national vice . Tom Gradgrind is the real exponent of the school . " A présent , ce qu'il me faut , ce sont des faits ...
... French character . They are the produce of English soil , of thoroughly British institutions , and they represent our national vice . Tom Gradgrind is the real exponent of the school . " A présent , ce qu'il me faut , ce sont des faits ...
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abstract admirable admit Alfred de Musset Alfred Tennyson artist Carlyle character cœur David Copperfield David Garrick definition despotic Dickens Diddloff divine Dombey dreams emotions England English Englishman everything excite expression fact feelings French critic friends Galeongee genius Georges Sand German gives grand happy heart historian human humour idea imagination induction infinite king literary logical Logician Longears Lord Lord Byron Lord Macaulay Macaulay Macaulay's ments mind monomania moral Musset nature never novelist opinion passion Pecksniff Pendennis phenomena philosophy plainly poet poetry politics portrait practical proposition Puritanism reader regard religion romance sarcasm satires says sensation sensation of sight sentiments Shakspeare snob society sorrow spirit Stuart Mill style syllogism Taine quotes Taine takes Tartuffe taste tears tells Tennyson Thackeray theory thing thinkers THOMAS CARLYLE thought tion tout true truth vice virtue Voltaire Warren Hastings whole word writes young
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