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I have no particular objection to it; but those who object to Thackeray's parabases ought to think this is a still more objectionable thing.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

His digressions are not parabases of the kind which some people object to in Fielding and still more in Thackeray—addresses to the reader on points more or less intimately connected with the subject itself.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George