 The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves ; and the perfection of it is to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner and to make them appear so probable...  The School for Widows - Page 27by Clara Reeve - 2003 - 382 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1899 - 374 pages
...familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves ; and the perfection of it is to represent...appear so probable as to deceive us into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys or distresses of... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1899 - 362 pages
...day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves ; and the perfection of it ia to represent every scene in so easy and natural a...appear so probable as to deceive us into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys or distresses of... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 518 pages
...familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves ; and the perfection of it is to represent...appear so probable as to deceive us into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys or distresses of... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1917 - 360 pages
...to make them appear so probable as to deceive us into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys or distresses of the persons iu the story as if they were our own. Scott was a disturbing element to the critic's classification,... | |
 | Wilhelm Viëtor - 1919 - 514 pages
...relation of such things as pass every day beioro our eyes, »uch as may happen to our friends or to ourselves; and the perfection of it is to represent every scene in so easy and natur&l * manner and to make them appear so probable as to deceive us into » persuasion (at lea»t... | |
 | Louise Carew - 1926 - 252 pages
...to make them appear ao probable as to deceive as into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys or distresses of the peril sons in the story as if they were our own." In tracing the history of the novel. Ure. Reeve was... | |
 | Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1927 - 362 pages
...familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves ; and the perfection of it is to represent...and to make them appear so probable as to deceive UK into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the... | |
 | Harry Levin - 1986 - 566 pages
...eyes, such as may happen to our friends or to ourselves," wrote Miss Reeve, a generation before Scott, "and the perfection of it is to represent every scene...appear so probable, as to deceive us into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys or distresses of... | |
 | Hans W. Frei - 1974 - 374 pages
...relation to such things, as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend, or to ourselves; and the perfection of it, is to represent...appear so probable, as to deceive us into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys and distresses... | |
 | D. H. Mellor - 1990 - 188 pages
...relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes, such as may happen to our friends, or to ourselves, and the perfection of it is, to represent...appear so probable, as to deceive us into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys or distresses,... | |
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