The Fortunes of Nigel: A Romance, Volume 1James Crissy, 1825 - Great Britain |
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Page xii - Gothic anomaly, and the work is complete long before I have attained the point I proposed. Captain. Resolution and determined forbearance might remedy that evil. Author. Alas, my dear sir, you do not know the force of paternal affection. — When I light on such a character as Bailie Jarvie, or Dalgetty, my imagination brightens, and my conception becomes...
Page viii - He challenges a comparison between the Novel and the Epic. Smollett, Le Sage, and others, emancipating themselves from the strictness of the rules he has laid down, have written rather a history of the miscellaneous adventures which befall an individual in the course of life, than the plot of a regular and connected epopeia, where every step brings us a point nearer to the final catastrophe.
Page 192 - Ah Ben ! Say how or .when Shall we, thy guests, Meet at those lyric feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the Triple Tun ; Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad? And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Page xiii - When I light on such a character as Bailie Jarvie, or Dalgetty, my imagination brightens, and my conception becomes clearer at every step which I take in his company, although it leads me many a weary mile away from the regular road, and forces me to leap hedge and ditch to get back into the route again.