 ... that giants, magicians, fairies, and heroes of romance which succeeded, had exhausted the portion of credulity which belonged to their age ; that now nothing was left to a writer but that species of the marvellous, which might still be produced, and...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2911856Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 pages
...the secret of his principles of composition. That acute, though eccentric observer, had perceived, that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous...marvellous of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effects ; that giants, magicians, fairies, and heroes of romance which succeeded, had exhausted the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1872 - 244 pages
...the secret of his principles of composition. That acute, though eccentric, observer had perceived, that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous...succeeded, had exhausted the portion of credulity L which belonged to their age ; that now nothing was left to a writer but that species of the marvellous,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...himself the secret of his principles of composition. That acute though eccentric observer had perceived that, to strike and interest the public, the marvellous...marvellous of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effects ; that giants, magicians, fairies, and heroes of romance which succeeded, had exhausted the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 pages
...the secret of his principles of composition. That acute, though eccentric, observer had perceived, that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous...the portion of credulity which belonged to their age ; that now nothing was left to a writer but that species of the marvellous, which might still be produced,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1877 - 544 pages
...et reste aussi libre qu'auparavant." — Con- lefon xxiv. CHAP. LII.] SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE. 321 be produced ; that the marvellous of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effect — that it was necessary to resort to the marvellous in life, manners, character, and situation." Sincere or... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...the secret of his principles of composition. That acute, though eccentric, observer had perceived, that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous...the portion of credulity which belonged to their age ; that now nothing was left to a writer but that species of the marvellous, which might still be produced,... | |
 | American Historical Association - Historiography - 1894 - 626 pages
...perceived that to strike and interest the public the marvelous must be produced; that the marvelous of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effect;...portion of credulity which belonged to their age; that now nothing was left to a writer but that species of the marvelous which might still be produced,... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1894 - 480 pages
...himself the secret of his principles of composition. That acute, though eccentric observer, had perceived that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous...the portion of credulity which belonged to their age ; that now nothing was left to a writer but that We are more apt to connect the theory of the Social... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1894 - 528 pages
...himself the secret of his principles of composition. That acute, though eccentric observer, had perceived that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous must be produced ; lhat the marvellous of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effect ; that giants, magicians,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...himself the secret of his principles of composition. That acute though eccentric observer had perceived, that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous must be produced ; that the marvel- 25 lous of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effects ; that giants, magicians,... | |
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