History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1888 - Fiction |
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John Colin Dunlop. work of Sterne . A man of genius will produce an interest- ing composition in defiance of the laws of criticism , while one without talent will compose a work by rule , as a stone- cutter may hew out a statue according ...
John Colin Dunlop. work of Sterne . A man of genius will produce an interest- ing composition in defiance of the laws of criticism , while one without talent will compose a work by rule , as a stone- cutter may hew out a statue according ...
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... interest , is totally overthrown ; and the credence of reality being once destroyed , the waking dream cannot again be restored , nor can the reader conceive even the probable incidents as passing before him . In the romance of ...
... interest , is totally overthrown ; and the credence of reality being once destroyed , the waking dream cannot again be restored , nor can the reader conceive even the probable incidents as passing before him . In the romance of ...
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... interest in every event by pre- viously informing us that the persons concerned had dreamed it was to take place . The effect , too , of one of the most striking situations in the work is injured by a fault in disposition . When ...
... interest in every event by pre- viously informing us that the persons concerned had dreamed it was to take place . The effect , too , of one of the most striking situations in the work is injured by a fault in disposition . When ...
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... interest would have been raised the highest , had our impressions remained un- interrupted . Next to the nature of the subject , and the arrangement of the incidents , the Ornaments of a romance should be chiefly considered ; of these ...
... interest would have been raised the highest , had our impressions remained un- interrupted . Next to the nature of the subject , and the arrangement of the incidents , the Ornaments of a romance should be chiefly considered ; of these ...
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... interest than in Theagenes and Chariclea , there is more bustle in the action . A number of the amorous stratagems , too , are original and well imagined — such as Clitophon's dis- course on love with Satyrus , in the hearing of ...
... interest than in Theagenes and Chariclea , there is more bustle in the action . A number of the amorous stratagems , too , are original and well imagined — such as Clitophon's dis- course on love with Satyrus , in the hearing of ...
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