But though such an unconnected course of adventures is what most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality... Bride of Lammermoor - Peveril of the peak - Seite 131von Walter Scott - 1833Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| A. P. Webb - 1916 - 172 Seiten
...is what most frequently occurs in | nature, yet the province of the romance-writer being artificial, there is more | required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality." | Sir W. Scott. | [NB — The above quotation is between two short horizontal lines. — A. pw] In... | |
| Lionel Johnson, Joseph Edwin Barton, John Lane - 1923 - 390 Seiten
...is what most frequently occurs in | nature, yet the province of the romancewriter being artificial, there is more | required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality.' | SIR W. SCOTT | IN Three Volumes. | London: | Tinsley Brothers, 18, Catherine St., Strand. | 1871.... | |
| Ernest Brennecke - 1925 - 314 Seiten
...is what most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance-writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality." — SIR WALTER SCOTT. It would naturally be the greatest possible fallacy to assume that Hardy's sympathy... | |
| Charles James Sawyer, Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton - 1927 - 440 Seiten
...is what most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance-writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality." Quotation used on the title page of Desperate Remedies, first edition, 1871. and Berkeley have hitherto... | |
| Pierre d'. Exideuil - 1928 - 254 Seiten
...is \vlial most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance writer being artiflcial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality." Sir Walter Scott. (2) The May or of Casterbridge. tourne et c'est Farfrae, hier associé de Henchard,... | |
| George Levine - 1981 - 368 Seiten
...is what most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality . . . Sir Walter Scott, Introduction to The Monastery I Ironically, the first point to be made about... | |
| J Viswanathan - 2000 - 274 Seiten
...is what most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance...knots and artificial parterres, the flowers which « natures boon » distributes freely on hill and dale. Fielding, accordingly, in most of his novels,... | |
| Walter Scott, Sir - 2005 - 373 Seiten
...is what most frequently occurs in nature, yet the province of the romance writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance...and artificial parterres, the flowers which " nature hoon" distributes freely on hill and dale. Fielding, accordingly, in most of his novels, hut especially... | |
| Claire Tomalin - 2007 - 536 Seiten
...page, only a sentence from Scott explaining that 'the province of the romance-writer being artificial, there is more required from him than a mere compliance with the simplicity of reality.' It was not calculated to attract readers, and it was slightly misquoted: a bad start. Hardy corrected... | |
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