British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose FictionMacmillan and Company, 1859 - 308 pagina's |
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... human emotions and relations , and the acts that spring from them and illustrate them ; the permanent facts of na- ture and of life ; the everlasting generalities of human thought and human aspiration and diffi- culty - these are what ...
... human emotions and relations , and the acts that spring from them and illustrate them ; the permanent facts of na- ture and of life ; the everlasting generalities of human thought and human aspiration and diffi- culty - these are what ...
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... human faith ; and while , even , after a fashion of its own , it will admit of speculation , and the evolution of fresh maxim ; yet , for all that partakes of the nature of continuous reasoning or explication , and especially for ...
... human faith ; and while , even , after a fashion of its own , it will admit of speculation , and the evolution of fresh maxim ; yet , for all that partakes of the nature of continuous reasoning or explication , and especially for ...
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... human commonwealth , or a rebel , a cynic , a son of the wilderness . In short , the measure of the value of any work of fiction , ultimately and on the whole , is the worth of the speculation , the philosophy , on which it rests , and ...
... human commonwealth , or a rebel , a cynic , a son of the wilderness . In short , the measure of the value of any work of fiction , ultimately and on the whole , is the worth of the speculation , the philosophy , on which it rests , and ...
Pagina 37
... , and placed in situations where Nature still exerts upon Humanity the unbroken magnetism of her inani- mate bulk , soothing into peace in the quiet mead- ows , whispering of the unearthly in the depths of 4 THE SCENERY . 37.
... , and placed in situations where Nature still exerts upon Humanity the unbroken magnetism of her inani- mate bulk , soothing into peace in the quiet mead- ows , whispering of the unearthly in the depths of 4 THE SCENERY . 37.
Pagina 39
... human history , by vir- tue of a separate origin when Nature's constituents were once for all preärranged and rolled together in their mystic harmony . Here we have them as appended on to human history , and organically de- veloped THE ...
... human history , by vir- tue of a separate origin when Nature's constituents were once for all preärranged and rolled together in their mystic harmony . Here we have them as appended on to human history , and organically de- veloped THE ...
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British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ... David Masson Volledige weergave - 1859 |
British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ... David Masson Volledige weergave - 1859 |
British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ... David Masson Volledige weergave - 1859 |
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allegory APHRA BEHN Arcadia artist Baron Bunsen Britain British novel-writing British Novelists British novels British prose fiction called characters Christianity contemporary critics Dickens and Thackeray doctrine Edinburgh eighteenth century element English Epic fact fancy fictitious Fielding and Smollett Fielding's form of literature French genius Gothic hand hero heroic HUGH MILLER human humor ideal imaginary imagination incidents intellectual interest ladies Lady Caroline Lamb literary London manners matter mediæval metrical mind Miss mode modern moral Narrative Poetry nature novelists passion Pastoral peculiar perhaps philosophic Picaresque Novel poems poetic poets political popular prose fiction published Rabelais readers represented respect Richardson Robert Bage romance satire scenes Scotland Scott Scotticism Scottish Shakspeare Smollett social society specimens speculative spirit Sterne story style Swift Thackeray Theodore Hook things thought tion truth ture variety Verse Waverley Waverley novels Whiggism whole writers
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Pagina 25 - 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; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pagina 147 - 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 146 - 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 166 - 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 25 - 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? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Pagina 64 - The country," answered Claius, " where you were cast ashore, and now are passed through, is Laconia; not so poor by the barrenness of the soil (though in itself not passing fertile) as by a civil war, which being these two years...
Pagina 305 - THE PRIEST AND THE HUGUENOT ; or Persecution in the Age of Louis XV.
Pagina 302 - CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. A Selection of the choicest productions of English Authors, from the earliest to the present time. Connected by a Critical and Biographical History. Forming two large imperial octavo volumes of TOO pages each, double column letter press ; with upwards of 300 elegant Illustrations.
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