 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 738 pages
...diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groupcs, and exhibited m various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform...labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his importance. Almost all the heroes of this kind, who have hitherto succeeded on the English stage, are... | |
 | Alicia Lefanu - 1824 - 462 pages
...person to attract the attention, unite the incidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, * Smollett. and at last close the scene by virtue of his own importance." If this definition be admitted to be correct, " Sidney Biddulph" may, without fear of contradiction,... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 426 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of a uniform plan and general occurrence, to which every...labyrinth, and at last close the scene by virtue of his importance."1 But Smollett presents the " different groups " and " various attitudes" of his " diffused... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 346 pages
...uniform plan." And he gives what is at least a characteristic of his own novels when he adds that " this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability,...close the scene, by virtue of his own importance." Such 1 86 The English Novel. [CHAP. unity of design as his novels may claim is entirely due to this... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 322 pages
...probability, or success, without a principal personage to attract the attention, unite theTricidents, unwind the clue of the labyrinth, and at last close the scene, by virtue of his own importance." Such unity of design as his novels may claim is entirely due to this device of the " principal personage."... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1902 - 364 pages
...purposes of an Uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every Individual figure is subservient. lint this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability,...this kind, who have hitherto succeeded on the English stuge, are characters of transcendent worth, conducted through the vicissitudes of fortune, to that... | |
 | Francis Heveningham Pughe - 1902 - 188 pages
...different attitudes, for the purpose of an uniform plan. This", heisst es weiter, „cannot be executed — without a principal personage to attract the attention,...last close the scene by virtue of his own importance. Ein roman, meint Smollett, soll ein grosses lebensgemälde mit allerlei in verschiedenen gruppierungen... | |
 | Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 364 pages
...novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes...close the scene, by virtue of his own importance." (Preface of FCF) Walpole.— The Castle of Otranto. See Phelps. Warton, Thomas. — History of English... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 pages
...of an uniform plan. This plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without n principal personage to attract the attention, unite...close the scene, by virtue of his own importance. SMOLLETT, Ferdinand, Count Fathom prose before the eighteenth century? (6) Who "established" it then?... | |
 | Aurélien Digeon - 1925 - 282 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groups and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of a uniform plan and general occurrence, to which every...close the scene, by virtue of his own importance." This is to return to Le Sage's method, and to the grouping of incidents round a biography. He observes... | |
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A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient.... 
