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" Walpole could go no further than the admission that this book 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... "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 120
redigeeritud poolt - 1826
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The old English baron [by C. Reeve]. The castle of Otranto, by H. Walpole

Clara Reeve - 1820 - 328 lehte
...pronounce that he might own it without a blush. It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...strict adherence to common life. — But, if in the B2 latter species, Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been totally...
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The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical ..., 22. köide

1820 - 328 lehte
...pronounce that he might own it without a blush. It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life.—But, if in the R2 latter species, Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge,...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 17. köide

1826 - 602 lehte
...after the eternal imitations of the Scotch novels. t Archaeology, во called playfully by HW t " U was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance (says...adherence to common life. But if in the latter species natnre has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old...
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British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ...

David Masson - 1859 - 394 lehte
...properly require a word or two. It was " an attempt," says the author, "to blend the two kinds of Romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...been dammed up by a strict adherence to common life." By way of experiment, in reviving the more imaginative style of romance, Walpole had bethought himself...
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The Quarterly Review, 147. köide

1879 - 612 lehte
...former all was imagination and improbability ; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, aiid sometimes has been, copied with success. Invention...but the great resources of fancy have been dammed * We wish to make a strong exception to this criticism in favour of ' HMS Pinafore,' which, in its...
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The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement: A Study in Eighteenth ...

William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 lehte
...established in those dark ages." " It was an attempt," he said, " to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life." The remainder of the preface is occupied with a defense of Shakspere, who had been attacked by Voltaire...
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The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement: A Study in Eighteenth ...

William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 216 lehte
...established in those dark ages." "It was an attempt," he said, "to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life." The remainder of the preface is occupied with a defense of Shakspere, who had been attacked by Voltaire...
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The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement: A Study in Eighteenth ...

William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 lehte
...established in those dark ages." "It was an attempt," he said, "to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life." The remainder of the preface is occupied with a defense of Shakspere, who had been attacked by Voltaire...
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The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement: A Study in Eighteenth ...

William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 236 lehte
...attempt," he said, "to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was f imagination and improbability ; in the latter, nature...dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life." The remainder of the preface is occupied with a defense of Shakspere, who had been attacked by Voltaire...
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The Quarterly Review, 178. köide

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 600 lehte
...kind. In the former kind, he observes, all was imagination and improbability ; while in the latter ' the great resources of fancy have been dammed up by a strict adherence to common life.' His own simple rule was Nature, even in ' the deportment of servants.' ' I am content,' writes Walpole...
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