 | Horace Walpole - 1794 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...unlefs better judges fhould pronounce that he might own -it without 3. blvufh,. • iv 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,... | |
 | 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...maflacres.' Vol. 1 1 commences with ' the Caftle of Otranto, a gothic flory.' This is evidently an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern ; accordingly, the terrific of the onf, and the probability of the other, are endeavoured to be united... | |
 | 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. 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,... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. 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... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. 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... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. 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,... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...Castle of Otranto may more properly require a word or two. It was " an attempt," says the author, " 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... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...preface to a second edition the author informed the public that the " Castle of Otranto " was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern; and, expatiating on this theme , he laid bare his mode of action, explaining, at some length, his plan... | |
 | 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...correctly appreciated the condition of the public taste — ' The tale,' he says, ' 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,... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...trifle, unless better judges should pronounce that he might own it without a blush. 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... | |
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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. Invention has not been... 
