 | 1787 - Страниц: 326
...to compofe a Novel ; and all whofe neceffities or vanity prompted them to write, betook themfelves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no...the unworthy. The efFects of this have been felt, not only in the debafement of the Novel in point of literary merit, but in another particular ftill... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - Страниц: 254
...to compose a Novel ; and all whose necessities or vanity prompted them to write, betook themselves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no...cultivate, but in which a heated imagination, or an excursive fancy, were alone sufficient to succeed ; and men of genius and of knowledge, despising a... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - Страниц: 492
...necessary to compose a novel; and all whose necessities or vanity prompted them to write, betook themselves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no...cultivate, but in which a heated imagination, or an excursive fancy, were alone sufficient to succeed; and men of genius and of knowledge, despising a... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - Страниц: 434
...knowledge, despising a province in which such competitors were to be met, retired from it in disgust, and left it in the hands of the unworthy. The effects of this have been felt, not only in the debasement of the novel in point of literary merit, but in another particular still... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 346
...necessary to compose a novel ; and all whose necessities or vanity prompted them to write betook themselves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no...cultivate, but in which a heated imagination, or an excursive fancy, were alone sufficient to succeed ; and men of genius and of knowledge, despising a... | |
 | Francis Barnett - 1823 - Страниц: 372
...to compose a novel; and all, whose necessities or vanity prompted them to write, betook themselves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no...cultivate; but in which, a heated imagination, or an excursive fancy were alone sufficient to succeed ; and men of genius and of knowledge, despising a... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Страниц: 346
...knowledge, despising a province in which such competitors were to be met, retired from it in disgust, and left it in the hands of the unworthy. The effects of this have been felt, not only in the debasement of the Novel in point of literary merit, but in another particular still... | |
 | Markman Ellis - 2004 - Страниц: 284
...necessary to compose a novel; and all whose necessities or vanity prompted them to write, betook themselves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no...cultivate, but in which a heated imagination, or an excursive fancy, were alone sufficient to succeed. The popularity of the novel, then, which guaranteed... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2001 - Страниц: 436
...necessary to compose a Novel; and all whose necessities or vanity prompted them to write, betook themselves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no...cultivate, but in which a heated imagination, or an excursive fancy, were alone sufficient to succeed; and men of genius and of knowledge, despising a... | |
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As few endowments were necessary to judge, so few have been supposed necessary to compose a Novel ; and all whose necessities or vanity prompted them to write, betook themselves to a field, which, as they imagined, it required no extent of information... 