 | 1844 - 742 Seiten
...Ridentur dicerc verum Quid vetat." " I have no right to say, you shall not find fault with my art. or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe...strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there IB nothing A little more frankness than is customary has been attempted in this story, with no had... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 392 Seiten
...readers than I ever looked for. I have no right to say to these, You shall not find fault with my Art, or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe...that this book began with a very precise plan, which waa entirely put aside. Ladies and gentlemen, you were to have been treated, and the writer's and the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 396 Seiten
...readers than I ever looked for. I have no right to say to these, You shall not find fault with my Art, or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe...the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. the mixture of slang and fashionable language ? the escapes, the battles, the murders ? Nay, up to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 876 Seiten
...readers than I ever looked for. I have no right to say to these, You shall not find fault with my art, or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe...there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of " excitement" majr care to know, that this book began with a very precise plan, which was entirely put aside. Ladies... | |
 | William Henry Rideing - 1885 - 120 Seiten
...said Thackeray was not a novelist of low life. " Perhaps," he says in the preface to Pendennis : " the lovers of excitement may care to know that this book began with a veiy precise plan, which was entirely put aside. Ladies and Gentlemen, you were to have been treated,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 456 Seiten
...readers than I ever looked for. I have no right to say to these, You shall not find fault with my art, or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe...writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not ihat, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of " excitement " may care to know, that this book began... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 858 Seiten
...readers than I ever looked for. I have no right to say to these, You shall not find fault with my art, or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe that this person writing strives to toll the truth. If there ia not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of "excitement" may care... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 Seiten
...composition . . . fail in art . . . it at least has the advantage of a certain truth and honesty ... I ask you to believe that this person writing strives...truth. If there is not that, there is nothing."— Preface to Andennu. " Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 1052 Seiten
...than I ever looked for. I have no right to say to these, XXXV You shall not find fault with my art, or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe that this person writing strives to toll the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. Perhaps the lovers of ' excitement ' may care... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - 1913 - 400 Seiten
...other arts? . . . I have no right to say to these [readers], You shall not find fault with my art, or fall asleep over my pages; but I ask you to believe...the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing." The first element of sincerity, then, is honesty. But for a writer to believe what he writes is only... | |
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You shall not find fault with my Art, or fall asleep over my pages ; but I ask you to believe that this person writing strives to tell the truth. If there is not that, there is nothing. 
