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" ... is obvious — the machinery is so violent, that it destroys the effect it is intended to excite. Had the story been kept within the utmost verge of probability, the effect had been preserved, without losing the least circumstance that excites or... "
The Lady's Magazine: Entertaining Companion, for the Fair Sex, Appropriated ... - Página 191
1778
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The champion of virtue, by the editor of the Phœnix

Clara Reeve - 1777 - 214 páginas
...characters are admirably drawn and fupported ; the didion poliihed and elegant; yet with all thefe brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind, though it does...the machinery is fo violent, that it deftroys the efFec'l it is intended to excite. Had the ftory been kept within the utmoft 'verge of probability,...
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The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story. By Clara Reeve

Clara Reeve - 1778 - 254 páginas
...are admirably drawn and fupported; the diftion poliflied and elegant; yet, with all thefe brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does...intended to excite. Had the ftory been kept within the utmoft verge of probability, the effect had been preferved, without lofing the leaft circumftance that...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 45

Tobias Smollett - 1778 - 514 páginas
...characters are admirably drawn and fupported; tho diction polimed and elegant; yet, with all thefe brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does not upon the car); and trie reafon reafon is obvious, the machinery is fo violent, that it deftroys the elicit it...
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The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story

Clara Reeve - 1789 - 300 páginas
...are admirably drawn and fupportedj the didlion polifhed and elegant ; yet, with all thefe brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does not upon the <ar); and the reafon is obvious, the machinery is fo violent, that it deftroys the effect it is intended...
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The old English baron [by C. Reeve].

Clara Reeve - 1802 - 304 páginas
...are admirably drawn and fupported ; the diction polifhed and elegant ; yet, with all thefe brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does...intended to excite. Had the ftory been kept within the utmoft verge of probability, the effect had been preferved, without lofingthe leaft circumftance that...
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Select Novels, Volume 1

1816 - 550 páginas
...are admirably drawn and supported ; the diction polished and elegant ; yet, with all these brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does not upon the ear) ; and the reason is ovious, the machinery is so violent, that it destroys the effect it is intended to excite....
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The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volume 22

1820 - 328 páginas
...are admirably drawn and supported; the diction polished and elegant; yet, with all these brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does not upon the ear); and the reason is obvious—the machinery is so violent, that it destroys the effect it is intended to excite....
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The old English baron [by C. Reeve]. The castle of Otranto, by H. Walpole

Clara Reeve - 1820 - 328 páginas
...are admirably drawn and supported ; the diction polished and elegant ; yet, with all these brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does not upon the ear) ; and the reason is obvious — the machinery is so violent, that it destroys the effect it is intended to excite....
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The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story

Clara Reeve - 1834 - 170 páginas
...are admirabty .drawn and supported ; the diction polished and elegant; yet, with alt these briltiant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does not upon the ear) ; and the reason is obvious, the machinery is so violent, that it destroys the effect it is intended to excite....
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Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820

Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 páginas
...are admirably drawn and supported; the diction polished and elegant; yet, with all these brilliant advantages, it palls upon the mind (though it does not upon the ear); and the reason is obvious, the machinery is so violent, that it destroys the effect it is intended to excite....
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