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Side 3
... rules for narrative composition ; if indeed any rules can be laid down for governing the fancy , and di- recting the taste . Perspicuity , it will be easily seen , is the first excellence of narrative . The impression must be clear and ...
... rules for narrative composition ; if indeed any rules can be laid down for governing the fancy , and di- recting the taste . Perspicuity , it will be easily seen , is the first excellence of narrative . The impression must be clear and ...
Side 6
... rules or observations whatever . Read carefully the most approved narrators ; mark their manner of bringing events and circumstances before your view ; observe their mode of connecting them ; the compass and turn of their periods . You ...
... rules or observations whatever . Read carefully the most approved narrators ; mark their manner of bringing events and circumstances before your view ; observe their mode of connecting them ; the compass and turn of their periods . You ...
Side 66
... rules can be established , and in this respect even Aristotle's poetics have done more harm than good , particularly in the rules which he pretends to prescribe for dramatic poetry . So 66 FICTITIOUS NARRATIVE .
... rules can be established , and in this respect even Aristotle's poetics have done more harm than good , particularly in the rules which he pretends to prescribe for dramatic poetry . So 66 FICTITIOUS NARRATIVE .
Side 67
... of this * Since writing the above , however , I have seen some excellent rules for novel writers in the second volume of Mr. Cumberland's Memoirs , p . 259 . kind of writing ; for his Ephesian or Loves of FICTITIOUS NARRATIVE . 67.
... of this * Since writing the above , however , I have seen some excellent rules for novel writers in the second volume of Mr. Cumberland's Memoirs , p . 259 . kind of writing ; for his Ephesian or Loves of FICTITIOUS NARRATIVE . 67.
Side 78
... similies ; but they must be managed with infinite address , not to destroy the simplicity , and even to obscure the spirit of a familiar epistle . I cannot in this place omit to mention a most excellent rule of Mr. 78 EPISTOLARY WRITING .
... similies ; but they must be managed with infinite address , not to destroy the simplicity , and even to obscure the spirit of a familiar epistle . I cannot in this place omit to mention a most excellent rule of Mr. 78 EPISTOLARY WRITING .
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