. Thackerayana;. CONVENTIONALITIES. 449. ments of dress-coats; but men—are they to be put off with suchfare for ever ? In those days of Bohemian license there was a fine sterling ringabout Thackerays outspoken sentiments. In his manly freedomhe cared little whether the slashing sentences gave offence or not. Criticising the paintings in the Louvre in a paper on Men andPictures, we find the young art-student riding an audacious tour-nament against conventionalisms. He takes very candid excep-tion to the practice of surrounding the heads of translated beings,and particularly angels, with an inva
. Thackerayana;. CONVENTIONALITIES. 449. ments of dress-coats; but men—are they to be put off with suchfare for ever ? In those days of Bohemian license there was a fine sterling ringabout Thackerays outspoken sentiments. In his manly freedomhe cared little whether the slashing sentences gave offence or not. Criticising the paintings in the Louvre in a paper on Men andPictures, we find the young art-student riding an audacious tour-nament against conventionalisms. He takes very candid excep-tion to the practice of surrounding the heads of translated beings,and particularly angels, with an invariable halo of gold happens to remember that stage tradition was always wont todress the gravedigger in Hamlet in fifteen or sixteen waist-coats, all of which are consecutively removed, and he presumesthis ancient usage is founded on some very early custom,real or supposititious, to depart from which would savour otprofane innovation, and on this circumstance he proceeds toargue :— Now, suppose the legend ordered that every
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