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 páginas |
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... beautiful variety , than can any where be found in nature , is pleasing to the mind . 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 ...
... beautiful variety , than can any where be found in nature , is pleasing to the mind . 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 ...
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... beautiful - he chiefly delights in minute descrip- tions of the pomp of embassies and processions , and , as was natural in a priest , of sacrifices , or religious rites . These might be tiresome or even disgusting in a modern novel ...
... beautiful - he chiefly delights in minute descrip- tions of the pomp of embassies and processions , and , as was natural in a priest , of sacrifices , or religious rites . These might be tiresome or even disgusting in a modern novel ...
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... beautiful , the objects being at once well selected , and so painted as to form in the mind of the reader a distinct and lively image . As examples of his merit in this way may be in- stanced , his description of a garden , ( 1. i . c ...
... beautiful , the objects being at once well selected , and so painted as to form in the mind of the reader a distinct and lively image . As examples of his merit in this way may be in- stanced , his description of a garden , ( 1. i . c ...
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... beautiful picture , in which appeared children exposed , lovers plighting their faith , and incursions of pirates - that , having found an interpreter of this painting , he had expressed in writing what it represented , and produced a ...
... beautiful picture , in which appeared children exposed , lovers plighting their faith , and incursions of pirates - that , having found an interpreter of this painting , he had expressed in writing what it represented , and produced a ...
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... him with teachers and servants of the most healthy and beautiful appearance , he is careful that no symp- toms of death , or disease , or poverty , or any thing that could molest him , should fall under his ob- 72 GREEK ROMANCES .
... him with teachers and servants of the most healthy and beautiful appearance , he is careful that no symp- toms of death , or disease , or poverty , or any thing that could molest him , should fall under his ob- 72 GREEK ROMANCES .
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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,...
Página 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.
Página 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.