 | Henry Fielding - 1749 - 270 pages
...and is deficient in Metre only ; it feems, I think, reafonable ti refer it to the Epic ; at leajl, as no Critic hath thought proper to range it under any other Head, or to ajjign it a particular Name to itfelf. Thus the Telemachus of the ArchbiJhop «/" Cambray appears to... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1766 - 390 pages
...and is deficient in metre only ; it feems, I think, reafonable to refer it to the epic ; at leaft, as no critic hath thought proper to range , it under any other head, or to affign it a particular name to itfelf. THUS the Telemachus of the archbifhop,of Cambray appears to... | |
 | English fiction - 1780 - 568 pages
...and is deficient in metre only; it feerns, I think, reafonable to refer it to the epic ; at leaft, as no critic hath thought proper to range it under any other head, or to aflign it a particular name to itfelf. Thus the Telemadius of the Archbîihop of Cambray appears to... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 444 pages
...when any kind of writing contains all its other parts, such as fable, action, characters, sentiments, and diction, and is deficient in metre only ; it seems,...think, reasonable to refer it to the epic ; at least as Joseph Andrews was originally published iu two volumes no critic hath thought proper to range it under... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...when any kind of writing contains all its other parts, such as fable, action, characters, sentiments, and diction, and is deficient in metre only ; it seems,...as no critic hath thought proper to range it under another head, or to assign it a particular name to itself. Thus the Telemachus of the archbishop of... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...when any kind of writing contains a its other parts, such as fable, action, character*, sentiments, and diction, and is deficient in metre only ; it seems, I think, reasonable to refer t to the epic ; at least, as no critic hath thought praper to range it under any other head, or to... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 850 pages
...'••> the epic ; at least, as no critic hath thought ftj« to range it under any other head, or to «gn it a particular name to itself. Thus the Telemachus of the Archbishop of lifflbray appears to me of the epic kind, as well >.*e Odyssey of Homer: indeed it is much IT and more... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1845 - 578 pages
...when any kind of writing contains all its other parts, such as fable, action, characters, sent.ments, , another head, or to assign it A particular name to itself. Now, a comic romance is a comic epic poem... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1871 - 448 pages
...when any kind of writing contains all its other parts, such as fable, action, characters, sentiments, and diction, and is deficient in metre only, it seems,...least as no critic hath thought proper to range it • Joseph Andrews was originally published in two volumes, lihno. under another head, or to assign... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1872 - 748 pages
...when any kind of writing contains all its other parta, snch as fable, action, characters, sentiments, and diction, and is deficient in metre only, it seems,...as no critic hath thought proper to range it under another head, or to assign it a particular name to itself. Thus the Telemachui of the Archbishop of... | |
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I will not scruple to say it may be likewise either in verse or prose: for though it wants one particular, which the critic enumerates in the constituent parts of an epic poem, namely metre; yet, when any kind of writing contains all its other parts,... 
