 I get the expression of the life of the time ; of the manners, of the movement, the dress, the pleasures, the laughter, the ridicules of society — the old times live again, and I travel in the old country of England. Can the heaviest historian do more...  The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures - Seite 168von Sir John Robert Seeley - 1883 - 309 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1916 - 880 Seiten
...essayists, and caricaturists : — I take up a volume of Dr. Smollett, or a volume of The Spectator, and say the fiction carries a greater amount of truth...expression of the life of the time: of the manners, of the movements, the dress, the pleasures, the laughter, the ridicules of society — the old times live... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 Seiten
...to fortify it by evidence. I take up a volume of Dr. Smollett, or a volume of the "Spectator," and say the fiction carries a greater amount of truth in solution than the volume which purports to he all true. Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life of the time; of the manners,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 360 Seiten
...to fortify it by evidence. I take up a volume of Dr. Smollett, or a volume of the ' Spectator,' and say the fiction carries a greater amount of truth...solution than the volume which purports to be all true. Oat of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life of the time ; of the manners, of the movement,... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 Seiten
...to fortify it by evidence. I take up a volume of Dr. Smollett, or a volume of the .'Spectator,' and say the fiction carries a greater amount of truth...purports to be all true. Out of the fictitious book 1 get the expression of the life of the time; of the manners, of the movement, the dress, the pleasures,... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 Seiten
...and all that goes to make up the character of a people. As one of our greatest novelists has said, " Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasures, the laughter, the ridicules of... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 Seiten
...and all that goes to make up the character of a people. As one of our greatest novelists has said: " Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasures, the laughter, the ridicules of... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 Seiten
...and all that goes to make up the character of a people. As one of our greatest novelists has said : " Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasures, the laughter, the ridicules of... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 Seiten
...and all that goes to make up the character of a people. As one of our greatest novelists has said: " Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasures, the laughter, the ridicules of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 Seiten
...evidence. I take up a volume of Dr. Smollett, or a volume of ' The Spectator,' and say the fiotion curries a greater amount of truth in solution than the volume which purports to be all true. Out of the iictilious book I get the expression of the lite of the time ; of the manners, of the movement, the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 Seiten
...must introduce nothing inconsistent with the manners of the aye. SIR WALTER SCOTT : Ivanhoe, Preface. Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, 'of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules,... | |
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