William Thackeray by Hawes Professor Donald; Hawes Donald; Tillotson Geoffrey

Author:Hawes, Professor Donald; Hawes, Donald; Tillotson, Geoffrey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

But his favourite amusement is the unmasking hypocrisy. He delights to show the selfishness of kindness, the pride of humility, the consciousness of simplicity. If any of Mr. Thackeray’s characters had been copied from real life, and the originals could recognise themselves in his imitations, they never would tremble more than when some apparently good act was ascribed to them. They would expect to see in the next page the virtue turn into a vice or a weakness….

1 James Drummond (1816–77) painted many scenes from Scottish history.

2 Edmund Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society (1756) was a parody of some of Bolingbroke’s philosophical writings.

3 The district of London which until 1697 was a sanctuary for debtors and criminals.

4 See above, p. 72.

5 Characters in Richardson’s Clarissa Harlowe (1740) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

6 Pope, ‘Of the Characters of Women’ (1735), 119.

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