 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 стор.
...be united, or reunited, with ' nature ' ; and ' fancy ' is to come into VOL. I. 0 her own again. ' The great resources of fancy have been dammed up by a strict adherence to common life.' Fancy must therefore range freely ; but nature is, at the same time, still to be ' copied with success.'... | |
 | Jakob Brauchli - 1928 - 254 стор.
...etwas grundsätzlich Neues geschaffen zu haben, sondern bezeichnet seine Geschichte "as an attempt to blend the two kinds of Romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former", fährt er fort, "all was imagination and improbability; in the latter, nature is always intended to... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 стор.
...Walpole in his second preface to his Castle of Otranto (1765) states that his story was "an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern." to letters, became acquainted with Pope, Lyttelton, and others, and in opposition to George II became... | |
 | E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 стор.
...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...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if, in the latter species, Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having... | |
 | George E. Haggerty - 2010 - 216 стор.
...suggests that the impulse behind Gothic fiction was an impulse toward formal innovation: It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. (7) Iser quotes this preface as an example of what he calls Walpole's attempt to "surpass the traditional... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 стор.
...new preface, Walpole explained his intention of widening the scope of contemporary fiction, in which 'the great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life'. His aim was to reconcile the inventiveness of ancient romance with the realism of the modern novel,... | |
 | Eugenia C. DeLamotte - 1990 - 367 стор.
...Walpole's second preface to The Castle of Otranto defended his experiment on the similar ground that "[T]he great resources of fancy have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life" (43). He was "desirous," he said, "of leaving the powers of fancy at liberty to expatiate through the... | |
 | 1990 - 236 стор.
...ancient catholic family in the north of England", Préface de la 1ère édition. "It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern" Préface de la seconde édition, The Castle ofOtranto, Oxford paperbacks, 1969, pp. 3 et 7. (3) TOMPKINS,... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1993 - 448 стор.
...second edition, rather than his example, that is instructive. His book, he tells us, was 'an attempt to blend the two kinds of Romance, the ancient and...been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge, having been... | |
 | Allan Lloyd Smith, Victor Sage - 1994 - 256 стор.
...it without a blush. It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modem. In the former all was imagination and improbability:...wanting; but the great resources of fancy have been damned up, by a strict adherence to common life. But if in the latter species. Nature has cramped imagination,... | |
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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... 
