...of narrative stances is that of preacher. In Vanity Fair, alluding to the frontispiece sketch, he is 'the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover (an accurate portrait of your humble servant), [who] professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his...

...is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the...far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells159 or a shovel-hat;160 and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such...

...original serialized form) is explicitly referred to in the main text in a narrator's comment on himself - »the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover (an accurate portrait of your humble servant)« (75) - and hence is an integral, intra-compositional part of the work. 50 In these two cases the necessity...

...humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover20 (an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands,21 but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed: yet, look you,...

...is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the...same long-eared livery in which his congregation is 177 arrayed — yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one...