 | William Ernest Henley - English literature - 1921 - 454 pages
...that way moved, he was easily persuaded to ' expunge ' : together, as he flattered himself, with ' every adventure, phrase, and insinuation that could...reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum.' The Memoirs of a Lady of Duality l he retained, and to this day they 1 The Lady of Quality, Horace... | |
 | Howard Swazey Buck - 1925 - 236 pages
...it stands are enough, in all conscience. The author's amazing statement that "he flatters himself, that he has expunged every adventure, phrase, and...reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum," takes its place beside the famous prospectus of Roderick Random, in whose hero he declares he has "attempted... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1925 - 274 pages
...are wholly suppressed: some humourous scenes he has endeavoured to heighten, and he flatters himself that he has expunged every adventure, phrase and insinuation that could be construed by the mo si delicate reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum. He owns with contrition, that in one... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1925 - 272 pages
...are wholly suppressed: some humourous scenes he has endeavoured to heighten, and he flatters himself that he has expunged every adventure, phrase and insinuation that could be conslrued by the mosl delicate reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum. He owns with contrition,... | |
 | Lionel Kelly - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 399 pages
...suppressed; some humorous scenes he has endeavoured to heighten; and he flatters that he hasexpunged every adventure, phrase, and insinuation, that could...represented characters, as they appeared to him at the time, through the exaggerated medium of prejudice. But he has in this o oo 1 J impression endeavoured... | |
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He owns with contrition, that, in one or two instances, he gave way too much to the suggestions of personal resentment, and represented characters, as they appeared to him at the time, through the exaggerated medium of prejudice. 
