 ... heads turn wild with impossible adventures ; and now and then are tainted with democracy. Not so the mighty magician of The Mysteries of Udolpho, bred and- nourished by the Florentine muses in their sacred solitary...  Lives of the Novelists - Page 217by Walter Scott - 1825 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1799 - 462 pages
...Mrs. &c. &c. though all of them are very ingenious ladies, yet they are too frequently tuuhiaing or frisking in novels, till our girls' heads turn •wild...impossible adventures, and now and then are tainted with democracy.—Not so the mighty magician of THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO,! bred and nourished by'the Florentine... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - Verse satire, English - 1801 - 608 pages
...Mrs. &c. &c. though all of them are very ingenious ladies, yet they are too frequently -whining or frisking in novels, till our girls' heads turn wild with impossible adventures, and are now and then tainted with democracy. Not so the mighty magician of THE MYSTERIES OP UDOLPHO, (a)... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - Verse satire, English - 1801 - 612 pages
...&c. though all of them are very ingenious ladies, yet they are too frequently -wAining or friikiag in novels, till our girls' heads turn wild with impossible adventures, and are now and then tainted with democracy. Not so the mighty magician of THE MYSTERIES op UDOLPHO,(<J)... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - English literature - 1803 - 614 pages
...&C. though all of them are very ingenious ladies, yet they are too frequently lakining or friikitg in novels, till our girls' heads turn wild, with impossible adventures, and are now and then tainted with democracy. Not ;o the mighty magician of THE MY si TRIES or UDOLPHO,(<J)... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...feeling. The unknown author of Tlic Pursuits of Literature, who, in respect to common tales of terror, " boasts an English heart, Unused at ghosts or rattling...frequently whining and frisking in novels, till our girls'1 heads turn wild with impossible adventures ; and now and then are tainted with democracy. Not... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...pathetic. The^ ^unknown author of The Pursuits of Literature, who, in respect to common tales of terror, " boasts an English heart, Unused at ghosts or rattling...Though all of them are ingenious ladies, yet they are t»o frequently whining and frisking in novels, till our girls' heads turn wild with impossible adventures... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...rattling bone* to itart," acknowledges, nevertheless, the legitimate character of Mr?. Radcliffc's art, and pays no mean tribute to her skill. Of some sister novelist he talks with slight regard. " Though all of them are ingenious ladies, yet they are too frequently... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...pathetic. The unknown author of The Pursuits of Literature, who, in respect to common tales of terror, " boasts an English heart, Unused at ghosts or rattling...frequently whining and frisking in novels, till our girl*' heads turn wild with impossible adventures; and now and then are tainted with democracy. Not... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1865 - 328 pages
...of the once popular satire of " the Pursuits of Literature," who, in reference to tales of wonder, " Boasts an English heart, Unused at ghosts or rattling bones to start," nevertheless does justice to Mrs. Radcliffe's skill in composition, and pays a willing tribute to her... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1887 - 674 pages
...pathetic. The unknown author of " The Pursuits of Literature," who, in respect to common tales of terror, boasts an English heart, Unused at ghosts or rattling bones to start. muses in their secret solitary caverns, amid the paler shrines of Gothic superstition, and in all the... | |
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