 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 pages
...published in 1771, in three volumes, 12mo, and very favourably received by the public. PREFATORY MEMOIR. The very ingenious scheme of describing the various...different members of the same family by the same objects, was not original, though it has been supposed to be so. Anstey, the facetious author of the New Bath... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...delightful work was published in i77i, in 3 vols. iamo., and very favourably received by the public. The very ingenious scheme of describing the "various...different members of the same family by the same objects was not original, though it has been supposed to be so. Anstey, the facetious author of the New Bath... | |
 | Christopher Anstey - Bath (England) - 1830 - 270 pages
...luminary of literature. In the preface to Smollett's works, he says, speaking of Humphrey Clinker, " the very ingenious scheme of describing the various...different members of the same family, by the same objects, was not original, though it is supposed to have been so. Anstey, the facetious author of the ' New... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...delightful work was published in 1771, in three volumes, 12mo, and very favourably received by the public. The very ingenious scheme of describing the various...different members of the same family by the same objects, was not original, though it has been supposed to be so. Anstey, the facetious author of the New Bath... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...delightful work was published in 1771, in three volumes, 12mo, and very favourably received by the public. The very ingenious scheme of describing the various...different members of the same family by the same objects, was not original, though it has been supposed to be so. Anstey, the facetious author of the New Bath... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 554 pages
...delightful work was published in 1771, in 3 vols Unió, and very favourably received by the public. The very ingenious scheme of describing the various...different members of the same family by the same objects is not original, though it has been supposed to be so. Ansie v, the facetious author of the JVev Bath... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 pages
...Campbell, in his Specimens of the British Poets, is mistaken in his belief that the leading characters in the New Bath Guide are borrowed from Smollett. Humphrey...regards the very ingenious scheme of describing the different effects produced upon different members of a family by the same object. We find a similar... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...Of. A novel by TOBIAS GEOROB SMOLLETT (1721 — 1771), published in 1771. "The very ingenious Kheme of describing the various effects produced upon different members of the same family by the •me objects, was not original, though it has been •opposed to be so. Anstey, the facetious author... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...circumstances, than the constitution of the mind. — DUNLOP, JOHN, 1814-45, The History of Fiction, p. 413. The very ingenious scheme of describing the various...different members of the same family by the same objects, was not original, though it has been supposed to be so. Anstey, the facetious author of the "New Bath... | |
 | Walter Maier - Bath (England) - 1914 - 328 pages
...über Smolletts Roman näher auf das Verhältnis der beiden Werke ein. "The very ingenious scheine of describing the various effects produced upon different members of the same family by the same objects, was not original, though it has been supposed to be so. Anstey, the facetious author of the New Bath... | |
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The very ingenious scheme of describing the various effects produced upon different members of the same family by the same objects, was not original, though it has been supposed to be so. Anstey, the facetious author of the New Bath Guide, had employed... 
