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" He challenges a comparison between the Novel and the Epic. Smollett, Le Sage, and others, emancipating themselves from the strictness of the rules he has laid down, have written rather a history of the miscellaneous adventures which befall an individual... "
The Fortunes of Nigel - Page xv
by Walter Scott - 1822 - 355 pages
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The Fortunes of Nigel: A Romance, Volume 1

Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 296 pages
...which befall an individual in the course ol life, than the plot of a regular and connected cpopeia, where every step brings us a point nearer to the final...traveller alights at the inn because it is evening. Cafitain. A very commodious mode of travelling, for (he author at least. In short, Sir, you are of...
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The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 4

Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 954 pages
...which hffull an individual in the courue of life, than the plot of a regular and connected epopcia, where every step brings us a point nearer to the final catastrophe. These ¿treat in as UTS have boon sntuflrd if they (imused the reader Ь|юп the road ; thuugh the conclusion...
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Waverley Novels: From the Last Rev. Ed., Containing the Author's Final ...

Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...the grave, man, before I had done with my task ; and, in the meanwhile, all the quirks and quiddities which I might have devised for my reader's amusement,...upon the road ; though the conclusion only arrived hecause the tale must have an end — just as the traveller alights at the inn, because it is evening....
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THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL

SIR WALTER SCOTT - 1871 - 520 pages
...also. Fielding had high I notions of the dignity of an art which he may be considered as I luiving founded. He challenges a comparison between the Novel...conclusion only arrived because the tale must have an end—just as the traveller alights at the inn because it is evening. at least. In short, sir, you...
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Fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the Peak

Walter Scott - 1883 - 1166 pages
...than the plot of a regular and connected epopeia, where every step brings us a point nearer to tlie final catastrophe. These great masters have been satisfied...the conclusion only arrived because the tale must liave an end — -just as the traveller alights at the inn because it is evening. Captain. — A very...
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An Introduction to the Study of Literature

William Henry Hudson - Criticism - 1913 - 484 pages
...which befall an individual in the course of life than the plot of a regular and connected epopoeia, where every step brings us a point nearer to the final catastrophe." 1 Thus while it may be filled to overflowing with interesting separate episodes, it has little in the...
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Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - Criticism - 1921 - 458 pages
...enemy by means of mysterious noises in his house. • See Midsummer Night's Dream, I, 1i, 42. ness of the rules he has laid down, have written rather...conclusion only arrived because the tale must have an end—just as the traveler alights at the inn because it is evening. Captain. A very commodious mode...
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The Bride of Lammermoor

Walter Scott - Fiction - 2000 - 404 pages
...resembled the rambling, picaresque method of his eighteenth-century predecessors Smollett and Le Sage, who 'have been satisfied if they amused the reader upon...traveller alights at the inn because it is evening'. This is the style of his best known novels, Waverley, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Ivanhoe, and Redgauntlet....
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