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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... Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , ORME , AND BROWN , PATERNOSTER - ROW ; AND JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE - STREET , LONDON ; AND JOHN BALLANTYNE AND CO . , Edinburgh . 1814 . INTRODUCTION . THE HE art of ...
... Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , ORME , AND BROWN , PATERNOSTER - ROW ; AND JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE - STREET , LONDON ; AND JOHN BALLANTYNE AND CO . , Edinburgh . 1814 . INTRODUCTION . THE HE art of ...
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... printing , with- out arguing the depravity they would have evinced , if presented to the world subsequent to that pe- riod . The work of Petronius is in the form of a satire , and , according to some commentators , is directed against ...
... printing , with- out arguing the depravity they would have evinced , if presented to the world subsequent to that pe- riod . The work of Petronius is in the form of a satire , and , according to some commentators , is directed against ...
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... printed in 1530. Ritson informs us , that , according to some , Menessier was the author of the metrical Perce- val : now , if we believe the authors of the Biblio- theque , this Menessier was the prose translator . The Abbe de la Rue ...
... printed in 1530. Ritson informs us , that , according to some , Menessier was the author of the metrical Perce- val : now , if we believe the authors of the Biblio- theque , this Menessier was the prose translator . The Abbe de la Rue ...
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... printed at Paris , in three volumes folio , 1498 ; this impres- sion , which has become extremely rare , was fol- lowed by another in quarto , which is much less esteemed than the other , but is also extremely scarce . Though seldom to ...
... printed at Paris , in three volumes folio , 1498 ; this impres- sion , which has become extremely rare , was fol- lowed by another in quarto , which is much less esteemed than the other , but is also extremely scarce . Though seldom to ...
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... printed in French prose , in 1516 , two volumes folio , by Gallyot du Pré , and afterwards 1523 , folio ; both editions are so rare , that the Sangreal is the scarcest romance of the Round Table . From the extract given by M. Barbazan ...
... printed in French prose , in 1516 , two volumes folio , by Gallyot du Pré , and afterwards 1523 , folio ; both editions are so rare , that the Sangreal is the scarcest romance of the Round Table . From the extract given by M. Barbazan ...
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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.