| Horace Walpole - 1794 - 202 pages
...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 - 730 pages
...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 - 328 pages
...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 - 328 pages
...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 - 414 pages
...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 - 416 pages
...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 - 356 pages
...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 - 352 pages
...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 - 612 pages
...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 - 448 pages
...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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