British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose FictionMacmillan and Company, 1859 - 308 pagini |
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Pagina 12
... fancy so magnificent but that the outline might be given in prose ; and in our prose fictions we have instances of schemes fit for noble poems ; but what Prose hesitates to undertake as confidently as Verse , is to sustain a story from ...
... fancy so magnificent but that the outline might be given in prose ; and in our prose fictions we have instances of schemes fit for noble poems ; but what Prose hesitates to undertake as confidently as Verse , is to sustain a story from ...
Pagina 15
... fancy recurs to the memory ; that mad kind of humour , in especial , which amounts to inspired zanyism , and whirls earth and heaven together , as if Puck were lord of both ; little of this , since the days of Aristophanes , has Verse ...
... fancy recurs to the memory ; that mad kind of humour , in especial , which amounts to inspired zanyism , and whirls earth and heaven together , as if Puck were lord of both ; little of this , since the days of Aristophanes , has Verse ...
Pagina 33
... fancy all kinds of human thought and mental activity as originally dammed up in Song , as in a lake with steep em- bankments - not only poetic or imaginative thought , and feeling or emotion , but also whatever of his- torical record or ...
... fancy all kinds of human thought and mental activity as originally dammed up in Song , as in a lake with steep em- bankments - not only poetic or imaginative thought , and feeling or emotion , but also whatever of his- torical record or ...
Pagina 41
... fancy for additions to the horrors of the popular Demonology , and now only telling comic and licentious tales of real life ; - yet , with few exceptions , all this immense trade in narrative literature , so far as it was vernacular and ...
... fancy for additions to the horrors of the popular Demonology , and now only telling comic and licentious tales of real life ; - yet , with few exceptions , all this immense trade in narrative literature , so far as it was vernacular and ...
Pagina 59
... fancy as an author might choose to throw into it , was likely to be kept up . Accordingly we have later examples of it , also originally in Latin , in Bacon's Atlantis ; in an odd production of Bishop Hall , in his early life , entitled ...
... fancy as an author might choose to throw into it , was likely to be kept up . Accordingly we have later examples of it , also originally in Latin , in Bacon's Atlantis ; in an odd production of Bishop Hall , in his early life , entitled ...
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British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ... David Masson Vizualizare completă - 1859 |
British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ... David Masson Vizualizare completă - 1859 |
British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ... David Masson Vizualizare completă - 1859 |
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Pagina 19 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Pagina 20 - ... than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Pagina 151 - It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was imagination and improbability ; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been, copied with success. Invention has not been wanting ; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life.
Pagina 63 - There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved...
Pagina 151 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Pagina 125 - I will not scruple to say it may be likewise either in verse or prose: for though it wants one particular, which the critic enumerates in the constituent parts of an epic poem, namely metre; yet, when any kind of writing contains all its other parts, such as fable, action, characters, sentiments, and diction, and is deficient in metre only, it seems, I think, reasonable to refer it to the epic...
Pagina 170 - E'en then a wish (I mind its power) A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Pagina 73 - AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode ; nay, I had undertook To make another ; which, when almost done, Before I was aware I this begun.
Pagina 171 - Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Pagina 155 - Edina ! Scotia's darling seat ! All hail thy palaces and towers, Where once beneath a monarch's feet Sat Legislation's sovereign powers...