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But as long as the Thackerayan platform of gentility stood firm all this was, comparatively speaking, concealed.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

They dissipate the Thackerayan fable that on the production of The Old Bachelor, the fortunate young author received a shower of sinecures, ‘all for writing a comedy.’

From The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] by Street, G. S. (George Slythe)

But relatively to the other Dickensian productions this book may be called Thackerayan.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Those devices of the satirist belonged to the sentimentalist mood of the Thackerayan epoch.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

Any Thackerayan could have completed the plot of Denis Duval; except indeed that a really sympathetic Thackerayan might have had some doubt as to whether there was any plot to complete.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)