 One merit the writer may at least claim; that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader, by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Peurile superstition and exploded manners; Gothic castles and chimeras, are the materials...  Charles Brockden Brown: A Study of Early American Fiction - Side 39af Martin Samuel Vilas - 1904 - 66 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1896 - 564 sider
...believed himself to be an innovator, may be seen from the following description of his " one merit — that of calling forth the passions and engaging the...hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras are the materials usually employed... | |
 | 1900 - 532 sider
...clung. In his preface to "Huntly" he says: "One merit at least the writer may claim, that of calling up the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed. Puerile superstitions and exploded manners, Gothic castles and chimeras, are the materials usually... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 478 sider
...makes explicit in the preface to Edgar Huntley: ". . . One merit the writer may at least claim—that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by * Dunlap's Life of Brown, I, 107. means hitherto unemployed. . . . Puerile superstition and exploded... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1907 - 430 sider
...fourth novel Brown emphasized his determination to depict American scenery and foster native fiction : One merit the writer may at least claim; — that...the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding "Edgar Huntley; or. Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (Philadelphia, 1799, 1800). authors. Puerile superstition... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - 1907 - 424 sider
...fourth novel Brown emphasized his determination to depict American scenery and foster native fiction : One merit the writer may at least claim; — that...the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding "Edgar Huntley ; or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (Philadelphia, 1799, 1800). authors. Puerile superstition... | |
 | Lillie Deming Loshe - 1907 - 172 sider
...connected with one of the most common and most wonderful diseases or affections of the human frame. One merit the writer may at least claim ; that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and... | |
 | Max Fricke - 1911 - 108 sider
...connected with one of the most common and most wonderful diseases or affections of the human frame. One merit the writer may at least claim: that of calling forth the passions and energy of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstition and exploded... | |
 | Edith Birkhead - 1921 - 262 sider
..." Monk " Lewis. Charles Brockden Brown, one of the earliest American novelists, prides himself on " calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathy of the reader by means not hitherto employed by preceding authors," and speaks slightingly of " puerile superstitions and... | |
 | Eino Railo - 1925 - 500 sider
...our country, and connected with one of the most common and wonderful diseases of the human f rame. One merit the writer may at least claim: that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and... | |
 | Eino Railo - 1927 - 434 sider
...connected with one of the most common and wonderful diseases of the human frame. One merit the author may at least claim : that of calling forth the passions and engaging the sympathies of the reader by means hitherto unemployed by preceding authors. Puerile superstitions and... | |
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