 Novels are of a more familiar nature ; Come near us, and represent to us Intrigues in practice, delight us with Accidents and odd Events, but not such as are wholly unusual or unpresidented, such which not being so distant from our Belief bring also the...  Life of William Congreve - Sivu 18tekijä(t) Edmund Gosse - 1888 - 192 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Henry Seidel Canby - 1909 - 748 sivua
...delight us with Accidents and odd Events, but not such as are wholly unusual or unpresidented, such which not being so distant from our Belief bring also the pleasure nearer us. Romances give more of Wonder, Novels more Delight." It is clear that the young Congreve had gauged... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Morgan - 1911 - 294 sivua
...delight us with Accidents and odd events but not such as are wholly unusual or unpresidented, such as not being so distant from our Belief bring also the pleasure nearer us. Romances give more of Wonder, Novels more Delight. And with reverence be it spoken and the Parallel... | |
 | William Congreve - 1922 - 104 sivua
...delight us with Accidents and odd Events, but not such as are wholly unusual or unpresidented, such which not being so distant from our Belief bring also the pleasure nearer us. Romances give more of Wonder, Novels more Delight. And with reverence be it spoken, and the Parallel... | |
 | Louise Carew - 1926 - 252 sivua
...delight us with accidents and odd Events, but not such as are wholly unusual or u&precidentes, such which not being so distant from our Belief bring also the pleasure nearer us. romances ^ive aore of ffonder, Kovels more Delight. xnd with reverence be it spoken, and the Parallel... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 sivua
...delight us with Accidents and odd Events, but not such as are wholly unusual or unprecedented, such which not being so distant from our Belief bring also the pleasure nearer us. Romances give more of Wonder, Novels more Delight.18 Pamela in its day was justly called "a dilated... | |
 | I. Primer - 1975 - 246 sivua
...with Accidents and odd Events, but not such as are wholly unusual or unpresidented, [sic] such which not being so distant from our Belief bring also the pleasure nearer us. Romances give more of Wonder, Novels more Delight.18 Both romances and novels, however, were concerned... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 sivua
...trappings.17 The same trend is seen in England when William Congreve praises those novels 'such which not being so distant from our belief bring also the pleasure nearer us' in the preface to his delicately ironical Incognita (1692). I8 Such writers, like the theorists... | |
 | Julie Stone Peters - 1990 - 312 sivua
...delight us with Accidents and odd Events, but not such as are wholly unusual or unpresidented, such which not being so distant from our Belief bring also the pleasure nearer us.23 Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances... | |
 | J. Paul Hunter - 1990 - 452 sivua
.... . . [with incidents] not such as are wholly unusual or unpresidented [unprecedented], such which not being so distant from our Belief bring also the pleasure nearer us."41 But even so hesitating and imprecise an attempt to set a distinction is rare, and one cannot... | |
 | Lennard J. Davis - 1997 - 268 sivua
...romance, "novels are of a more familiar nature" and "delight us with accidents and odd events, such which not being so distant from our belief bring also the pleasure nearer us."6 This distinction was also obvious to Lord Chesterfield in the mid-eighteenth century who wrote... | |
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