The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age, Volume 1J. Ballentyne and Company, 1814 - 508 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... length selects and plants them round his dwelling . In like manner , among the mixed events of human life , he experiences some which are peculiarly grateful , and of which the narrative at once pleases himself , and ex- cites in the ...
... length selects and plants them round his dwelling . In like manner , among the mixed events of human life , he experiences some which are peculiarly grateful , and of which the narrative at once pleases himself , and ex- cites in the ...
Pagina xvii
... length , and the fre- quent selection of worthless materials , the principal objection to the work is the arrange- ment adopted by the editors . Thus , a ro- mance of chivalry intervenes between two Greek romances , or is presented ...
... length , and the fre- quent selection of worthless materials , the principal objection to the work is the arrange- ment adopted by the editors . Thus , a ro- mance of chivalry intervenes between two Greek romances , or is presented ...
Pagina 8
... length of the day was proportioned to that of the night . At last , awakening one morning he finds himself at Tyre , where he meets with his old friends Mantinia and Dercyllis , with whom he passes the remainder of his life . This ...
... length of the day was proportioned to that of the night . At last , awakening one morning he finds himself at Tyre , where he meets with his old friends Mantinia and Dercyllis , with whom he passes the remainder of his life . This ...
Pagina 11
... length reco- vered , they proceed in their flight , and take up their abode with a man who poisons his brother , and af- terwards accuses them of the murder ; a charge from which they are freed by the accuser laying violent hands on ...
... length reco- vered , they proceed in their flight , and take up their abode with a man who poisons his brother , and af- terwards accuses them of the murder ; a charge from which they are freed by the accuser laying violent hands on ...
Pagina 20
... length when the two lovers are about to be immolated , Chariclea , by means of the ring and fillet which had been attach- ed to her at her birth , and which she had ever since preserved , is discovered to be the daughter of Hy- daspes ...
... length when the two lovers are about to be immolated , Chariclea , by means of the ring and fillet which had been attach- ed to her at her birth , and which she had ever since preserved , is discovered to be the daughter of Hy- daspes ...
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The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most ..., Volume 1 John Colin Dunlop Volledige weergave - 1816 |
The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated ... John Colin Dunlop Volledige weergave - 1816 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 89 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Pagina viii - And as real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished according to merit.
Pagina 234 - And ay they grew, and ay they threw, As they wad faine be neare ; And by this ye may ken right weil They were twa luvers deare.
Pagina 212 - Lionnesse there was, these proofs are yet remaining. ' The space between the Land's End and the Isles of ' Scilley, being about thirtie miles, to this day re...
Pagina viii - Divine nature, as it raises the mind, by accommodating the images of things to our desires, and not, like history and reason, subjecting the mind to things.
Pagina 45 - Dryas, their reputed fathers, had corresponding dreams on the same night. The Nymphs of the cave in which Chloe had been discovered appear to each of the old shepherds, delivering Daphnis and Chloe to a winged boy, with a bow and arrows, who commands that Daphnis should be sent to keep goats, and the girl to tend the sheep. Daphnis and Chloe have not long entered on their new employments, which they exercise with a care of their flocks increased by a knowledge of the circumstances of their infancy,...
Pagina 144 - Tuscany : several fine copies of verses were wrote on so rare a subject ; but at last Mr Bobart owned the cheat ; however, it was looked upon as a masterpiece of art, and, as such, deposited in the Museum, or Anatomy School, where I saw it some years after.
Pagina xii - The rude are refined by an introduction, as it were, to the higher orders of mankind, and even the dissipated and selfish are, in some degree, corrected by those paintings of virtue and simple nature, which must ever be employed by the novelist, if he wish to awaken emotion or delight.