 | T. C. W. Blanning - History - 2007 - 764 pages
...preface to the second edition, which came out later the same year, describing the exercise as 'an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life.' Walpole certainly gave his own resources of fancy full rein, including such extravagances as a portrait... | |
 | Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 772 pages
...the »Preface« to the second edition, he explicitly referred to this filiation: It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...improbability: in the latter, nature is always intended to be [...] copied. [...] the author of the following pages thought it possible to reconcile the two kinds.... | |
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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... 
