But this feeling has originated in the general idea that any face, or any figure, not made by the artist more beautiful or more graceful than the original is an injustice.

The face must be smoother, the pose of the body must be more dignified, the proportions more perfect, than in the person represented, or satisfaction is not felt.
Mr.Boehm has certainly not flattered, but, as far as my eye can judge, he has given the figure of the man exactly as he used to stand before us.

I have a portrait of him in crayon, by Samuel Lawrence, as like, but hardly as natural.
A little before his death Thackeray told me that he had then succeeded in replacing the fortune which he had lost as a young man.

Ho had, in fact, done better, for he left an income of seven hundred and fifty pounds behind him.
It has been said of Thackeray that he was a cynic.

This has been said so generally, that the charge against him has become proverbial.