 What I want is to make a set of people living without God in the world (only that is a cant phrase) greedy pompous mean perfectly self-satisfied for the most part and at ease about their superior virtue.  The Quarterly Review - 第 151 頁由 編輯 - 1900完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | William Newnham Chattin Carlton - 1925 - 88 頁
...character, or anything like it. What I want is to make a set of people living without God in the world, greedy, pompous men, perfectly self-satisfied for...most part, and at ease about their superior virtue." He felt only contempt for the life led by a large and influential section of society in his day —... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1927 - 372 頁
...Vanity Fair ' where Thackeray 1 Of ' Vanity Fair,' Thackeray wrote to his mother : • What I want ia to make a set of people living without God in the...world (only that is a cant phrase), greedy, pompous m«n, perfectly •elf-satisfied for the most part, and at ease about their superiol Tirtue.' — Introduction... | |
 | Robert M. Polhemus - 1982 - 408 頁
...he usurps the role of the preacher for himself, the humorist. Of the novel, he wrote that he wished "to make a set of people living without God in the world," 25 and the reason is that he no longer felt God moving positively in his world. Look through the conduct... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 960 頁
...mother. ' Don't you see how odious all the people are in the book with the exception of Dobbin ? . . . What I want is to make a set of people living without God in the world (only that is a cant phrase).' Now this confession — as probably most confessions are unintentionally as well as intentionally —... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1992 - 724 頁
...release to the Celestial City. 'What I want,' Thackeray wrote to his mother about his novel-in-progress, 'is to make a set of people living without God in...world (only that is a cant phrase) greedy pompous mean perfectly self-satisfied for the most part and at ease about their superior virtue' (quoted in... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 頁
...respectively) murdered her friend's mother. 9.2.3 THACKERAY, CYNIC OF THE SNOBBISH What I want to make is a set of people living without God in the world (only...most part, and at ease about their superior virtue. Dobbins and poor Briggs are the only people with real humility as yet. Amelia's is to come. — William... | |
 | Peter L. Shillingsburg - 2006 - 190 頁
...that Amelia was selfish. Thackeray responded explaining to his evangelical mother that he had wanted to make a set of people living without God in the world (only that is a cant phrase) greedy pompous mean perfectly self-satisfied for the most part and at ease about their superior virtue. Dobbin & poor... | |
 | Franco Marenco - 2007 - 499 頁
...are in the hook (with the exception of Dobbin) — behind whom ali there lies a dark moral I hope. What I want is to make a set of people living without...world (only that is a cant phrase) greedy pompous mean perfectly self-satisfied for the most part and at ease about their superior virtue12. 11 «Tutti... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1900 - 618 頁
...Jacques. Neither one uor two people would have satisfied Thackeray ; children, friends and family — his fellow-creatures — he wanted them all. Real...most part, and at ease about their superior virtue. Dohbin and poor Briggs are the only two people with real humility as yet ; Amelia's is to come when... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1964 - 1084 頁
...: it represents a particular phase of society, a special type of men. "What I want is," he writes, "to make a set of people living without God in the...for the most part, and at ease about their superior virtue1." Hence the Sedleys, the Osbornes, the Crawleys, Lord Steyne and Becky Sharp. If it were urged... | |
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