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Página 83 - ... a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue.
Página 3 - To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much. The opinion of the present writer — the result, at least, of many years...
Página 185 - A considerable part of the book consists of a story told to a certain person, who is a character in a longer story, found in a manuscript which is delivered to a third person, who narrates the greater part of the novel to a fourth person, who is the namesake and descendant of the tide-hero.
Página 27 - one of the great books of the world," he pays most honor in this respect. Malory was an artist not a mere compiler; he had "the sense of grasp, the power to put his finger, and to keep it, on the central pulse and nerve of the story. The Arthurian legend is the greatest of mediaeval creations.
Página 25 - Arthur. The most ancient and famous History of the renowned Prince Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table.
Página 313 - But, as with other kinds of literature, there is practically no limit to its powers of working its actual domains. In the finest of its already existing examples it hardly yields in accomplishment even to poetry; in that great secondary (if secondary) office of all Art — to redress the apparent injustice, and console for the apparent unkindness, of Nature — to serve as rest and refreshment between those exactions of life which, though neither unjust nor unkind, are burdensome, it has no equal...
Página 186 - ... little suggestion from Vathek. Melmoth has bartered his soul with the devil for something like immortality and other privileges, including the unusual one of escaping doom if he can get some one to take the bargain off his hands. This leads up to numerous episodes or chapters in which Melmoth endeavours to obtain substitutes: and in one of these the love interest of the book — the, of course, fatal love of Melmoth himself for a Spanish-Indian girl Immalee or Isidora — is related with some...
Página 190 - Burney; despite the immense novelproduction of the last half of the eighteenth century and the first decade of the nineteenth — it is hardly too much to say that " the novel," as such, had not found its proper way or ways at all.
Página 243 - ... her elders), and of Charles Kingsley. Charlotte (b. 1816) and Charles (b. 1819) were separated in their birth by but three years, Emily (b. 1818) and Kingsley by but one. The curious story of the struggles of the Bronte girls to get published hardly concerns us, and Emily's work, Wuthering Heights?- is one of those isolated books which, whatever their merit, are rather ornaments than essential parts in novel history.