 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1766 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...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... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...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,...excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversatious, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature bas cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge,...excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature has cramped imagination, she...excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were a? unnatural as the machines employed... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...her revenge, having been totally excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as...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... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature has cramped imagination, she...excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species nature has cramped imagination, she...excluded from old romances. The actions, sentiments, conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed... | |
 | 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...that has been produced within recent memory. np by a strict adherence to common life. But if, in the latter species, Nature has cramped imagination, she...unnatural as the machines employed to put them in motion.' It must be owned, however, that the manner in which Walpole and his successor, Mrs. Radcliffe, put... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species Nature has cramped imagination, she...excluded from old Romances. The actions, sentiments, conversations, of the heroes and heroines of ancient days, were as unnatural as the machines employed... | |
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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... 
