 What if some writer should appear who can write so enchantingly that he shall be able to call into actual life the people whom he invents ? What if Mignon, and Margaret, and Goetz von Berlichingen are alive now (though I don't say they are visible), and...  THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE - Page 289by SMITH - 1862Full view - About this book
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...Walter the " Wizard of the North." What if some writer should appear who can write so enchantingly that he shall be able to call into actual life the...silent in ? Suppose Athos, Porthos and Aramis should 220 enter with a noiseless swagger, curling their moustaches ? And dearest Amelia Booth, on Uncle Toby's... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - Literary Criticism - 1925 - 264 pages
...Sir Walter the 'Wizard of the North.' What if some writer should appear who can write so enchantingly that he shall be able to call into actual life the people whom he invents?... Well, I think Thackeray could do that: but only, I think, in the small district limited by the Haymarket... | |
 | Solveig C. Robinson - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 332 pages
...Sir Walter the "Wizard of the North." What if some writer should appear who can write so enchantingly that he shall be able to call into actual life the...Uncas and our noble old Leather Stocking were to glide in silent? Suppose Athos, Porthos, and Aramis should enter, with a noiseless swagger, curling Essays... | |
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...Sir Walter the 'Wizard of the North.' What if some writer should appear who can write so enchanttngly that he shall be able to call into actual life the...Uncas and our noble old Leather Stocking were to glide in silent? Suppose Athos, Porthos, and Aramis should enter, with a noiseless swagger, curling their... | |
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