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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... tion , tending to weaken the agreeable emo- tion , which , without it , would be more pure and forcible . For example , -in the process of forming the garden , the savage finds that it is not enough merely to collect a variety of ...
... tion , tending to weaken the agreeable emo- tion , which , without it , would be more pure and forcible . For example , -in the process of forming the garden , the savage finds that it is not enough merely to collect a variety of ...
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... tion , Fiction strongly shows that a greater va- riety of things , a more perfect order , a more 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 ...
... tion , Fiction strongly shows that a greater va- riety of things , a more perfect order , a more 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 ...
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... tion . Accordingly , this powerful instrument of virtue and happiness , after having been long despised , on account of the purposes to which it had been made subservient , has gra- dually become more justly appreciated , and more ...
... tion . Accordingly , this powerful instrument of virtue and happiness , after having been long despised , on account of the purposes to which it had been made subservient , has gra- dually become more justly appreciated , and more ...
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... tion ; he never departs from the order of time , and trudges on , according to the era of dates , with all the exactness of a chronologer . About two centuries elapsed from the death of Jamblichus , till the composition of the Theagenes ...
... tion ; he never departs from the order of time , and trudges on , according to the era of dates , with all the exactness of a chronologer . About two centuries elapsed from the death of Jamblichus , till the composition of the Theagenes ...
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... tion , at the very moment when the story is ap- proaching to a crisis , and when our interest would have been raised the highest , had our impressions remained uninterrupted . Next to the nature of the subject , and the ar- rangement of ...
... tion , at the very moment when the story is ap- proaching to a crisis , and when our interest would have been raised the highest , had our impressions remained uninterrupted . Next to the nature of the subject , and the ar- rangement of ...
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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.