A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of a uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But... The Study of a Novel - Page 293by Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1782 - 702 pages
...characters of life, difpofed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitude?, for the purpofes of an- uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is fubfervient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or iuccefs, without a principal... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 462 pages
...characters of life, difpofed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purpofes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is fubfervient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or fuccefs, without a principal... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1796 - 444 pages
...charadters of life, difpofed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purpofes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is fubfervient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or fuccefs, without a principal... | |
| Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1811 - 548 pages
...explanation than to you, who are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast ? A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,... | |
| Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 756 pages
...explanation, than to you, vs in i are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast ? A Novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited m various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1821 - 744 pages
...explanation, than to you, •who are so well acquainted witli all the sentiments and emotions of my breast ? A Novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,... | |
| Alicia Lefanu - 1824 - 462 pages
...the work in confirmation of this remark. An old master of the art* has aptly defined a novel to be " a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters...exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of a uniform plan and general concurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient." He adds —... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...explanation, than to you, who are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast ? A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,... | |
| Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 554 pages
...explanation than to you, who are so well acquainted with all the sentiments and emotions of my breast ! M P զh V 0 s4 ^ ' [K z q9 1 Ԟ I # Mo" )K g X l " Iز F 8 3 _D % groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence,... | |
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