Thackeray
What Emerson Has Said in His Fine Subtle Way of Shakespeare May Well Be Applied to the Author of “Vanity Fair”
“One can discern in his ample pictures what forms and humanities pleased him; his delight in troops of friends, in large hospitality, in cheerful giving.
“He read the hearts of men and women, their probity, and their second thought, and wiles; the wiles of innocence, and the transitions by which virtues and vices slide into their contraries.”