Fragment AM 315e of the older Gulathing law: from an old Norwegian codex of the XIIIth century, with facsimile and introduction, Band 13University of Illinois, 1928 - 42 Seiten |
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abbreviation adjective appears autem Berthelot bistave Blümner calices Carm Castle of Otranto characterization characters Clarissa color criticism of prose crystal crystalline cups discussed Don Quixote eighteenth century eigi epic Etym Fielding Fielding's fragment gems glass vessels Gloss Greek Henry Fielding Heraclius Hist History hyalos Ibid Idem imitation Kisa Konungs Skuggsjá kuld kyanos Latin letter literature London main stave mentioned Monthly moral murra murrine nature Norwegian novel novelists occurs Patr Plin Pliny praised preface probably prose fiction quae quod reader references Review Richardson romantic fiction satire says script Smollett story Strabo theory Tom Jones translation transparent truth vasa vase vilia vitrea vitri vitrum vols vowel vowel harmony word writing written wrote þa kal γὰρ δὲ διὰ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐξ καὶ μὲν οἱ περὶ τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Seite 59 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine • not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Seite 59 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Seite 114 - 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.
Seite 48 - ... we should ever confine ourselves strictly to nature, from the just imitation of which will flow all the pleasure we can this way convey to a sensible reader.
Seite 56 - A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his own importance.
Seite 65 - ... take the word of a man who has seen the world, and who has studied human nature more by experience than precept: take my word for it, I say, that books teach us very little of the world.
Seite 49 - I would by no means be thought to comprehend those persons of surprising genius, the authors of immense romances, or the modern novel and Atalantis writers '' who, without any assistance from nature or history, record persons who never were, or will be, and facts which never did, nor possibly can, happen; whose heroes are of their own creation, and their brains the chaos whence all their materials are selected.
Seite 30 - There is an air of truth apparent through the whole; and indeed, the author was so distinguished for his veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbours at Redriff, when any one affirmed a thing, to say, it was as true as if Mr. Gulliver had spoke it.
Seite 65 - ... touch a romance or novel ; these paint beauty in colours more charming than nature, and describe happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss ! They teach the youthful mind to sigh after beauty and happiness which never existed ; to despise the little good which fortune has mixed in our cup, by expecting more than she ever gave...
Seite 105 - Accordingly it was proposed in the invention of the following work to comprehend as far as the progressive nature of a single story would allow, a general review of the modes of domestic and unrecorded despotism, by which man becomes the destroyer of man.