 The Novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the times in which it is written. The Romance in lofty and elevated language, describes what never happened nor is likely to happen. The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things, as pass every...  The School for Widows - Pàgina 27per Clara Reeve - 2003 - 382 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1899 - 360 pàgines
...Romance, in lofty And elevated language, describes what never happened no) is likely to happen. The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as maj happen to our friend or to ourselves ; and the perfection of it is to represent every scene in... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1899 - 362 pàgines
...describes what never happened nor ia likely to happen. The Novel gives a familiar relation of Buch things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves ; and the perfection of it ia to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner... | |
 | Alfred Reichert - 1912 - 152 pàgines
...Romance, in lofty and elevated language, describes what never happened nor is likely to happen. The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every...before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves".8 1 Wülker, aa O., Bd. II, S. 343. 8 Im Gegenla^ zu Schönbach, Engel, Flügel, Canby,... | |
 | 1916 - 840 pàgines
...romance, in lofty and elevated language, describes what never happened nor is likely to happen. The novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every...before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves." It will be observed that her distinction is not the same as the one I have suggested... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1916 - 350 pàgines
...romance, in lofty and elevated language, describes what never happened nor is likely to happen. The novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every...before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves." It will be observed that her distinction is not the same as the one I have suggested... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 490 pàgines
...Reeve, a clever story-writer, said in her Progress of Romance, published in 1785, that " The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every...before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves ; and the perfection of it is to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1920 - 484 pàgines
...lofty and elevated language describes what never happened nor (sic) is likely to happen. The novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friends or to ourselves. The romance, however, that Mrs. Reeve admires is of the spunout, marvellous,... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1922 - 336 pàgines
...novel. His longer fictions are historical romances and humorous sketches in series form rather than "familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes" (whether we see them or not is another matter) "such as may happen to our friends or to ourselves."... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 pàgines
...lofty and elevated language describes what never happened nor (sic) is likely to happen. The novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friends or to ourselves. The romance, however, that Mrs. Reeve admires is of the spunout, marvellous,... | |
 | Harry Levin - 1986 - 566 pàgines
...justification for enlarging the domain of fiction. The pre-novel was seeking its own level. "The novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friends or to ourselves," wrote Miss Reeve, a generation before Scott, "and the perfection of it is... | |
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