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 3J. Ballentyne and Company, 1816 - 524 Seiten |
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... things which Rabelais seems . principally to have proposed to ridicule in his work : 1. The refined and crooked politics of the period in which he lived . 2. The vices of the clergy , the Romish superstitions , and the religious ...
... things which Rabelais seems . principally to have proposed to ridicule in his work : 1. The refined and crooked politics of the period in which he lived . 2. The vices of the clergy , the Romish superstitions , and the religious ...
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... things from which no meaning can be deciphered , and to most readers the works of Rabelais must appear a mass of unintelligible extravagance . The advantages which he formerly derived from temporary opinions , personal allu- sions , and ...
... things from which no meaning can be deciphered , and to most readers the works of Rabelais must appear a mass of unintelligible extravagance . The advantages which he formerly derived from temporary opinions , personal allu- sions , and ...
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... things incongruous united in the same assemblage , nothing can be more happy than the striking and multifarious contrasts exhibited between Sancho and his master . The presence of the squire being essential to the work , his at ...
... things incongruous united in the same assemblage , nothing can be more happy than the striking and multifarious contrasts exhibited between Sancho and his master . The presence of the squire being essential to the work , his at ...
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... thing is arranged . The spectators having taken their places , a dirty sheet rises , and Destin is discovered in the character of Herod , lying on a mattress , with a basket on his head for a crown , and repeating , in the tones of ...
... thing is arranged . The spectators having taken their places , a dirty sheet rises , and Destin is discovered in the character of Herod , lying on a mattress , with a basket on his head for a crown , and repeating , in the tones of ...
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... with the father of his mistress , by writing his papers for tenpence a sheet , and pleading his causes for half fees . Mat- See Appendix , Nc , 3 . ters are almost finally arranged , when every thing is 130 COMIC ROMANCE . >
... with the father of his mistress , by writing his papers for tenpence a sheet , and pleading his causes for half fees . Mat- See Appendix , Nc , 3 . ters are almost finally arranged , when every thing is 130 COMIC ROMANCE . >
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18th century Abencerrages accordingly admiration adventures Æneid afterwards Alcidiana appeared Arabian Arcadia arrived Artabanes Astrea beauty Bertoldo brother castle Celadon celebrated century Cervantes character chief chiefly chivalry Cleves conduct Contes court Cyrano Cyrus D'Urfé daughter death delineation Diana Don Quixote duke duke of Nemours enamoured episodes Euphues fairy father favour fiction France French Gil Blas Guerin happy hermit hero heroic romance husband imitation incidents inhabitants Italian king lady length lover Lycidas Lysimachus Madame mance manners Marianne Marivaux ment mistress monarch monks night novel origin Oroondates palace Paris passion pastoral Persian person Philomela Polexandre prince princess princess of Cleves productions qu'il queen Rabelais racters residence ridicule Sage satire Scarron scene Scuderi Scythian seems sentiments Sethos shepherd shepherdess sister Spanish species of composition spirit story style tale taste thou tion voyage wife writing written young
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Seite 70 - ... grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
Seite 71 - Now just as the Gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold, the City shone like the Sun; the Streets also were paved with Gold, and in them walked many men, with Crowns on their heads, Palms in their hands, and golden Harps to sing praises withal. There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord.
Seite 467 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Seite 70 - There were also that met them with harps and crowns, and gave them to them; the harps to praise withal, and the crowns in token of honour. Then I heard in my dream that all the bells in the City rang again for joy; and that it was said unto them, Enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
Seite 66 - As I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream.
Seite 284 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Seite 458 - Lovelace; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness.
Seite 468 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Seite 34 - Moses said unto him, Shall I follow thee, that thou mayest teach me part of that which thou hast been taught, for a direction unto me ? He answered, Verily thou canst not bear with me : for how canst thou patiently suffer those things, the knowledge whereof thou dost not comprehend ? Moses replied, Thou shalt find me patient, if GOD please ; neither will I be disobedient unto thee in anything.
Seite 205 - Pamela: methought love played in Philoclea's eyes, and threatened in Pamela's ; methought Philoclea's beauty only persuaded, but so persuaded as all hearts must yield ; Pamela's beauty used violence, and such violence as no heart could resist, and it seems that such proportion is between their minds.