Delphine, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1803 |
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Page viii
... truths , as fictions founded on those truths ; and that the best lessons of de- licacy or of dignity are to be found in no- vels , in which sentiments and characters are so naturally depicted , that on the perusal we fancy a real scene ...
... truths , as fictions founded on those truths ; and that the best lessons of de- licacy or of dignity are to be found in no- vels , in which sentiments and characters are so naturally depicted , that on the perusal we fancy a real scene ...
Page ix
... truth as those which are studied , because ordinary language never paints what really passes ; in our hearts . Every man has a mode of feeling peculiar to himself , which would produce originality if he gave way to it . Talent perhaps ...
... truth as those which are studied , because ordinary language never paints what really passes ; in our hearts . Every man has a mode of feeling peculiar to himself , which would produce originality if he gave way to it . Talent perhaps ...
Page x
... truth and delicacy of the sentiments . Madame de Lafayette , in her Princess of Cleves , was the first who succeeded in uniting the painting of the brilliant man- ners of chivalry , with the touching lan- guage of impassioned affections ...
... truth and delicacy of the sentiments . Madame de Lafayette , in her Princess of Cleves , was the first who succeeded in uniting the painting of the brilliant man- ners of chivalry , with the touching lan- guage of impassioned affections ...
Page xi
... truth and exquisite sensibility : but an improper estimate is formed of Ger- man literature among us , or , to speak more properly , the small number of well in- formed persons who are acquainted with it , do not give themselves the ...
... truth and exquisite sensibility : but an improper estimate is formed of Ger- man literature among us , or , to speak more properly , the small number of well in- formed persons who are acquainted with it , do not give themselves the ...
Page xv
... truths which were concealed by the clouds of their own times . The love of liberty glowed in the old blood of Corneille . In Telemachus , Fenelon gave severe lessons to Lewis XIV . Bossuet summoned the sovereigns of the earth before the ...
... truths which were concealed by the clouds of their own times . The love of liberty glowed in the old blood of Corneille . In Telemachus , Fenelon gave severe lessons to Lewis XIV . Bossuet summoned the sovereigns of the earth before the ...
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