 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 wanting; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence...  Gothick Origins and Innovations - Seite 40herausgegeben von - 1994 - 234 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1766 - 234 Seiten
...a ftridt adherence to common life. But if in the latter fpecies Nature has cramped imagination, fhe did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old Romances. The actions, fentiments, converfations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days were as unnatural as the machines... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1794 - 202 Seiten
...ftrict adherence to common life. But if in the latter fpecies Nature has cramped imagination , fhe did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old Romances. The actions, lentimcnts , conversions , of the heroes and heroines of ancient days were as unnatural as the machines... | |
 | 1820 - 328 Seiten
...great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life.—But, if in the R2 latter species, Nature has cramped imagination, she...excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversation, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1820 - 328 Seiten
...copied with success. Invention has not been wanting ; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. — But, if in the B2 latter species, Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been totally... | |
 | 1826 - 602 Seiten
...copied with success. Invention has not been wanting; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species natnre has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been totally excluded from old... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1829 - 336 Seiten
...copied with success. Invention has not been wanting ; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in...unnatural as the machines employed to put them in motion." — Preface to the second edition of Otranto. t The first imitation of Otranto was " The Old English... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1829 - 244 Seiten
...copied with success. Invention has not been wanting; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in...conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were a? unnatural as the machines employed to put them in motion.'' —Preface to the- second edition of... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 Seiten
...copied with success. Invention has not been wanting; but the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in...unnatural as the machines employed to put them in motion. of fancy at liberty to expatiate through the boundless realms of invention, and thence of creating... | |
 | 1879 - 612 Seiten
...the eighteenth century operetta, than any burlesque that has been produced within recent memory. np by a strict adherence to common life. But if, in the...excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversation, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed... | |
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