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, Band 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 |
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... successive writers of romance supposed that what had pleased once must please always ; in the same manner as it was long thought necessary that an epic writer should have in his poem the same num- ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY . 5.
... successive writers of romance supposed that what had pleased once must please always ; in the same manner as it was long thought necessary that an epic writer should have in his poem the same num- ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY . 5.
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... manner ; fictions , no doubt , suggested by the classical fable of Romulus and Remus . As Esplandian grew up the lioness acted as a dry nurse ; she guarded him when he walked out from the hermitage , and afterwards accompanied him in ...
... manner ; fictions , no doubt , suggested by the classical fable of Romulus and Remus . As Esplandian grew up the lioness acted as a dry nurse ; she guarded him when he walked out from the hermitage , and afterwards accompanied him in ...
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... manner , though with different views , that their ancestors had been put to rest by Urganda . When these heroes are completely roused , Amadis de Gaul having set out in quest of adventures , met with the queen of Saba , who was scouring ...
... manner , though with different views , that their ancestors had been put to rest by Urganda . When these heroes are completely roused , Amadis de Gaul having set out in quest of adventures , met with the queen of Saba , who was scouring ...
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... manner in which the early translations of them were execu- ted . The same author , however , has mentioned , that in Amadis de Greece may be found the ori- ginal of the Zelmane of the Arcadia , the Florizel of the Winter's Tale , and ...
... manner in which the early translations of them were execu- ted . The same author , however , has mentioned , that in Amadis de Greece may be found the ori- ginal of the Zelmane of the Arcadia , the Florizel of the Winter's Tale , and ...
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... manner as to excite con- siderable curiosity concerning them ; and I know no work of this kind where interest and suspense , with regard to the conclusion , is kept up with greater success . If in the rival work of Amadis 68 ROMANCES OF ...
... manner as to excite con- siderable curiosity concerning them ; and I know no work of this kind where interest and suspense , with regard to the conclusion , is kept up with greater success . If in the rival work of Amadis 68 ROMANCES OF ...
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Seite 222 - To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.
Seite 84 - Verily, neighbor, in its way it is the best book in the world : here the knights eat, and sleep, and die in their beds, and make their wills before their deaths ; with several things which are not to be found in any other books of this kind.
Seite 117 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Seite 291 - They pronounced those with the golden coverings to be the most precious, supposing they were made to contain the crowns and girdles of the king. The two chests covered with pitch they viewed with contempt. Then said the king, I presumed what would be your determination : for ye look with the eyes of sense. But to discern baseness or value which are hid within, we must look with the eyes of the mind. He then ordered the golden chests to be opened, which exhaled an intolerable stench, and filled the...
Seite 90 - Onely she turnd a pin, and by and by It cut away upon the yielding wave, Ne cared she her course for to apply ; For it was taught the way which she would have, And both from rocks and flats it selfe could wisely save.
Seite 176 - He had only come back to espy the conduct of his wife as usual, and, after a short stay, went out anew, at which you may believe his wife was not dissatisfied. She instantly ran to the coffers to release her prisoners, for night was approaching and her husband would not probably be long absent. But what was her dismay, when she found them all three suffocated ! Lamentation, however, was useless. The main object now was to get rid of the dead bodies, and she had not a moment to lose. She ran...
Seite 303 - English, in his work called the Palace of Pleasure. This first translation contained sixty novels, and it was soon followed by another volume, comprehending thirty-four additional tales. These are the pages of which Shakespeare made so much use. From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy we learn that one of the great amusements of our ancestors was reading Boccaccio aloud, an entertainment of which the effects were speedily visible in the literature of the country. The first English translation, however,...
Seite 66 - England," seeing which the licentiate said, "Let the Olive be made firewood of at once and burned until no ashes even are left; and let that Palm of England be kept and preserved as a thing that stands alone, and let such another case be made for it as that which Alexander found among the spoils of Darius and set aside for the safe keeping of the works of the poet Homer.
Seite 404 - It is said that jealousy is love, but I deny it ; for though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.
Seite 291 - The king commanded four chests to be made : two of which were covered with gold, and secured by golden locks, but filled with rotten bones of human carcasses.