 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...  The Book of the Boudoir - 257 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
...it without a blufh. IT was an attempt to blend the two kinds of Romance, the ancient and the modem. In the former, all was imagination and improbability...in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and fometimes has been, copied with fucccfs. Invention has not been wanting ; but the great refources of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1794 - 202 ページ
...that he might own -it without 3. blvufh,. • iv It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of Romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and fometimes has been, copied with fuccefs. Invention has not been wanting; but the great refources of... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1820 - 328 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1820 - 328 ページ
...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,... | |
 | 1826 - 602 ページ
...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... | |
 | 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
...benefactions, after the eternal imitations of the Scotch novels. t Archaeology, so called playfully by HW Î " It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance...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.... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 394 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1879 - 612 ページ
...condition of the public taste — ' The tale,' he says, ' was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former all was...; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, aiid sometimes has been, copied with success. Invention has not been wanting ; but the great resources... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 216 ページ
...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... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 ページ
...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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