 It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was imagination and improbability: in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been, copied with success.  The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story - Page 255by Clara Reeve - 1883 - 405 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1766 - 234 pages
...to avow iuch a trifle, unlefs better judges fhould pronounce that he might own it without a blufh. IT was an attempt to blend the two kinds of Romance, the ancient and the modem. In the former, all was imagination and improbability : in the latter, nature is always intended... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1794 - 202 pages
...futb. a trifle, unlefs better judges fhould pronounce that he might own -it without 3. blvufh,. • iv It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of Romance,...in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and fometimes has been, copied with fuccefs. Invention has not been wanting; but the great refources of... | |
 | 1799 - 730 pages
...and maflacres.' Vol. 1 1 commences with ' the Caftle of Otranto, a gothic flory.' This is evidently an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern ; accordingly, the terrific of the onf, and the probability of the other, are endeavoured to be united... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 328 pages
...personage of a translator. As diffidence of his own abilities, and the novelty of the attempt, were his sole inducements to assume that disguise, he flatters...have been dammed up, by a strict adherence to common life.—But, if in the R2 latter species, Nature has cramped imagination, she did but take her revenge,... | |
 | 1879 - 612 pages
...showed that he very correctly appreciated the condition of the public taste — ' The tale,' he says, ' was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance,...; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, aiid sometimes has been, copied with success. Invention has not been wanting ; but the great resources... | |
 | Elizabeth Haven Appleton - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1891 - 284 pages
...to be a feeble attempt at delineation of character — in Walpole's case a following out of his plan to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. To finish with Mrs. RadclifTe. There are some peculiarities about her life. In the f1rst place, she... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 236 pages
...begged the public's pardon for pretending that the book was a translation. "It was an attempt," he said, "to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern. In the former, all was f imagination and improbability ; in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...decorated his toy Gothic mansion. Fifty years before the success of Scott, the attempt was here made " to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern," to reintroduce, that is, the greatest possible freedom of invention, and to give full rein to fancy... | |
 | Wilhelm Dresen - 1896 - 752 pages
...romance all was Imagination \ -. and improbability ; in the modern romance, ie novel äs Fielding's, V nature is always intended to be and sometimes has been copied •\. with success." The author's attempt was to blend these two kinds i of romances. The chief agencies of the tale are... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 480 pages
...family in the north of England. In the preface to his second edition Walpole described the work as " an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern": declared that, in introducing humorous dialogues among the servants of the castle, he had taken nature... | |
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