 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1766 - 234 pages
...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 pages
...unlefs better judges fhould pronounce that he might own -it without 3. blvufh,. • iv It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of Romance, the ancient and...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... | |
 | 1799 - 730 pages
...maflacres.' Vol. 1 1 commences with ' the Caftle of Otranto, a gothic flory.' This is evidently an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern ; accordingly, the terrific of the onf, and the probability of the other, are endeavoured to be united... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1820 - 328 pages
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. — But, if in the B2 latter species, Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge,... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 328 pages
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 602 pages
...во called playfully by HW t " U was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance (says its author), the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species natnre has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English literature - 1829 - 336 pages
...disciples ;f while his " Cor* " It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance," says its author, " the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - English literature - 1829 - 244 pages
...ancient and the modern. In the formerall was imagination and improbability ; in the latter, nature if always intended to be (and sometimes has been) copied...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - 414 pages
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 pages
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance; the ancient and...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been... | |
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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... 
