Cloudesley, by the author of 'Caleb Williams'.1830 |
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Side vii - The writer of fiction, Mr Godwin asserts, has besides many advantages over the dramatist; "he has leisure to ripen his materials; to draw out his results one by one, even as they grow up and unfold themselves in the 'seven ages' of man. He is not confined, like the dramatist, to put down the words that his characters shall utter. He accompanies the language made use of by them with his comments, and explains the inmost thoughts that pass in the bosom of the upright man and the perverse.
Side 20 - OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit,* The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Side 151 - ... Like his, all her splendid faculties were arrayed on the side of evil. Did not the description of their castle's seat, where " Heaven's breath smells wooingly," and where in every jutty, frieze and buttress, the martlet "hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle," seem au emblem of Lady Macbeth's suggestion, " look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
Side vi - Cloudesley," enumerating the qualifications necessary to a writer of fiction, observes, " When he introduces his ideal personage to the public, he enters upon his task with a preconception of the qualities that belong to this being, the principle of his actions, and its necessary concomitants, &c. &c.
Side v - The folds of the human heart, the endless intermixture of motive with motive, and the difficulty of assigning which of these had the greatest effect in producing a given action, the desire each man has to stand well with his neighbours, and well with himself, all render the attempt to pass a sound judgment upon the characters of men to a great degree impossible.
Side 84 - I seemed only to stand in the way, to be a being that had intruded himself into a world where he was not wanted.
Side iii - Commonwealth has informed him of the truth of the assertion — that "individual history and biography are mere guesses in the dark." "The writer collects his information of what the great men on the theatre of the world are reported to have said and done, and then endeavours with his best sagacity to find out the explanation; to hit on that thread, woven through the whole contexture of the piece, which, being discovered, we are told "No prodigies remain, Comets are regular, and Wharton...
Side 81 - Bat, if we enter into the engagement deliberately and in cool blood, we well know that it is a compromise. The creature that our exalted imagination has figured to us, does not exist on the face of the earth. Of those that do exist, only a small number are accessible to us, or are such as we have the smallest chance to win to favour our addresses.
Side 81 - It is in this case, as in what may be called the most important affair of human life, marriage. If we are in love, we deceive ourselves; we ascribe to the favoured she the most unparalleled and super-human excellencies. But, if we enter into the engagement deliberately and in cool blood, we well know that it is a compromise.