 ... 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 - Great Britain - 1901 - 588 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... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 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...portion of credulity which belonged to their age; that now nothing was left to the writer but that species of the marvellous which might still be produced,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 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...portion of credulity which belonged to their age; that now nothing was left to the writer but that species of the marvellous which might still be produced,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 538 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...portion of credulity which belonged to their age; that now nothing was left to the writer but that species of the marvel-' lous which might still be... | |
 | Edmund Burke, J. G. A. Pocock - Philosophy - 1987 - 294 pages
...must be produced; that the marvelous of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effect; that the giants, magicians, fairies, and heroes of romance...portion of credulity which belonged to their age; that now nothing was left to the writer but that species of the marvelous which might still be produced,... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
...the secret of his principles of composition. That acute, though eccentric observer, had perceived, that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous...lost its effect; that giants, magicians, fairies, and heros of romance, which succeeded, had exhausted the portion of credulity which belonged to their age;... | |
 | David Duff - History - 1994 - 304 pages
...principles of composition' - is more shrewd: That acute, though eccentric, observer had perceived, that to strike and interest the public, the marvellous...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,... | |
 | Velma Bourgeois Richmond - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1996 - 636 pages
...Re/lections on the Revolution in France (1790), quotes Hume on Rousseau's principles of composition: "giants, magicians, fairies, and heroes of romance...portion of credulity which belonged to their age." To the writer was left only a new use of the "marvelous," that "in life, in manners, in characters,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 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... | |
 | Clifford Orwin, Nathan Tarcov - Philosophy - 1997 - 346 pages
...must be produced; that the marvelous of the heathen mythology had long since lost its effect; that the giants, magicians, fairies, and heroes of romance...portion of credulity which belonged to their age; that now nothing was left to the writer but that species of the marvelous which might still be produced,... | |
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