 Stripped of these tiresome lendings (which, as has been frequently pointed out, were a mania with the eighteenth century and naturally grew to such intricacy as this), the central story, though not exactly new, is impressive: and it is told and worked...  The English Novel - Página 186por George Saintsbury - 1924 - 319 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | GEORGE SAINTSBURY - 1913 - 332 páginas
...it generally is, was in her case the last fusing touch of genius to accomplish the grand ceuvre — the perfect projection. She had humour, pathos, knowledge...for this kind of " sensation " Maturin is, putting Vathek aside, quite the chief of the whole school. But it is doubtful whether he had many other gifts... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1913 - 340 páginas
...manner more impressive, because practically novel, save for, perhaps, a little suggestion from Vatbek. Melmoth has bartered his soul with the devil for something...for this kind of " sensation " Maturin is, putting Vathek aside, quite the chief of the whole school. But it is doubtful whether he had many other gifts... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1914 - 406 páginas
...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...though with a good deal of mere sentiment and twaddle. — GEORGE SAINTSBURY: Th» English Novel, p. 186. Melnotte, Claude, hero of Bulwer Lytton's comedy,... | |
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