 There are some narratives, which, though pure fictions from first to last, counterfeit so vividly the air of grave realities, that, if deliberately offered for such, they would for a time impose upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives,...  Memorials: And Other Papers - Side xiiaf Thomas De Quincey - 1856Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 sider
...upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary experience, and through a state of society so favourable to an adventurous cast of incidents, that they would everywhere pass for romances, if severed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 360 sider
...upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary...a state of society so favorable to an adventurous oast of incidents, that they would everywhere pass for romances, if severed from the documents which... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1871 - 358 sider
...upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary experience, and through a state of society so favourable to an adventurous cast of incidents, that they would everywhere pass for romances, if severed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1871 - 366 sider
...upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary experience, and through a state of society so favourable to an adventurous cast of incidents, that they would everywhere pass for romances, if severed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 624 sider
...upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary...In the former class stand the admirable novels of Defoe; and, on a lower range within the same category, the inimitable " Vicar of Wakefield;" upon which... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 466 sider
...upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so. remote from our...ordinary experience, and through a state of society so favourable to an adventurous cast of incidents, that they would everywhere pass for romances, if severed... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 464 sider
...upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary experience, and through a state of society so favourable to an adventurous cast of incidents, that they would everywhere pass for romances, if severed... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 sider
...upon everybody. In the opposite scale there are other narratives, which, whilst rigorously true, move amongst characters and scenes so remote from our ordinary experience, and through a state of society so favourable to an adventurous cast of incidents, that they would everywhere pass for romances, if severed... | |
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