 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...  The Book of the Boudoir - 184 ページLady Morgan (Sydney) 著 - 1829全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1766 - 234 ページ
...a ftridt adherence to common life. But if in the latter fpecies Nature has cramped imagination, fhe did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old Romances. The actions, fentiments, converfations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days were as unnatural as the machines... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1794 - 202 ページ
...ftrict adherence to common life. But if in the latter fpecies Nature has cramped imagination , fhe did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old Romances. The actions, lentimcnts , conversions , of the heroes and heroines of ancient days were as unnatural as the machines... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1820 - 328 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | 1820 - 328 ページ
...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...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,... | |
 | 1826 - 602 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 610 ページ
...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...to common life. But if in the latter species nature bas cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old romances.... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - 414 ページ
...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...conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed to put them in motion. The author of the following pages thought... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 ページ
...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...conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed to put them in motion. of fancy at liberty to expatiate through... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 330 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | 1879 - 612 ページ
...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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