... a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1521926Full view - About this book
| Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of...tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue." The book, as first complete in two volumes, was written in two months, from November loth, 1739, to... | |
| Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 712 pages
...natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of...tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue." The book, as first complete in two volumes, was written in two months, from Nov. 10, 1739, to Jan.... | |
| Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1879 - 722 pages
...manner, suitable to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing that might turn young people into a course of reading different...romance-writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvelous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue."... | |
| Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 706 pages
...natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance- writing ; and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound,... | |
| Bayard Tuckerman - English fiction - 1882 - 352 pages
...possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with...tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue." Such was the origin of a novel destined to make a new era in English fiction. It is evident that Richardson... | |
| Bayard Tuckerman - English fiction - 1882 - 356 pages
...natural manner, suitable to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance writing, and, dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound,... | |
| James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of...romance-writing; and dismissing the improbable and marvelous with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue."... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 490 pages
...turn young people into a course of reading" different from the pomp and parade of romance - writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with...tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue." We find him, then, obeying the spirit of his time by reacting against the decaying romantic novels,... | |
| Sidney Lanier - English fiction - 1883 - 312 pages
...moral purpose of his book, saying that he thinks it might " introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romanceL writing, and .... promote the cause of religion and virtue ; " and in the preface to the continuation... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 498 pages
...it is important to notice that, by his own confession, he was desirous of writing something " that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance - writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound,... | |
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