 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 518 Seiten
...separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits ; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest. But... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 462 Seiten
...separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits ; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest. But... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1903 - 356 Seiten
...separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits ; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest. But... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1903 - 454 Seiten
...separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits ; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest. But... | |
 | David Marshall - 1986 - 300 Seiten
...Knowledge of the Characters of Men," he denounces the imposition by which "the whole World becomes a vast Masquerade, where the greatest Part appear...false Vizors and Habits; a very few only shewing their own.Faces." Describing a world in which the outsides of people bear almost no resemblance to their... | |
 | Terry Castle - 1986 - 420 Seiten
...deceit in "An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men" (1743), Fielding called human society "a vast Masquerade, where the greatest Part appear disguised under false Vizors and Habits."33 In Rambler 75, Samuel Johnson scorned the way "the rich and powerful live in a perpetual... | |
 | Jules David Law - 1993 - 282 Seiten
...maintain one constant Imposition on others, the whole World becomes a vast Masquerade, where the greater Part appear disguised under false Vizors and Habits;...doing, the Astonishment and Ridicule of all the rest" (ibid., 1.155). tion of servant-class strategy as one of "turning qualities inside out" functions as... | |
 | Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University - 1995 - 294 Seiten
...Fielding in 1743 in his "Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men," the world was nothing more than "a vast Masquerade," where "the greatest Part appear disguised under false Vizors and Habits." Owen Sedgewick, in the same decade, entitled a lascivious compendium of modern evils The Universal... | |
 | William B. Warner - 1998 - 346 Seiten
...separate advantage, endeavor to maintain one constant imposition on the others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear...disguised under false vizors and habits; a very few only showing their own faces, who become, by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest" (155).... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...world becomes a vast masquerade where the greatest part appear disguised ... a very few only showing their own faces, who become by so doing, the astonishment and ridicule of all the rest.75 Like Mandeville, Fielding here deployed one of the most ubiquitous Augustan images of social... | |
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Thus while the crafty and designing part of mankind, consulting only their own separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear disguised under false... 
