Scott's Use of the Supernatural: A Study of the Supernatural Element in His Novels and Poems with a Review of His Critical Work on the SubjectUniversity of California., 1913 - 278 страници |
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Страница 19 - ... through which the moon was beginning to shine, that the individual of whom I speak saw, right before him, and in a standing posture, the exact representation of his departed friend whose recollection had been so strongly brought to his imagination. He stopped for a single moment, so as to notice the wonderful accuracy with which fancy had impressed upon the bodily eye the peculiarities of dress and posture of the illustrious poet.
Страница 19 - ... peculiarities of dress and posture of the illustrious poet. Sensible, however, of the delusion, he felt no sentiment save that of wonder at the extraordinary accuracy of the resemblance, and stepped onwards towards the figure, which resolved itself, as he approached, into the various materials of which it was composed.
Страница 46 - John Kemble and his inimitable sister. In a word, I experienced sensations which, though not remarkable either for timidity or superstition, did not fail to affect me to the point of being disagreeable, while they were mingled at the same time with a strange and indescribable kind of pleasure, the recollection of which affords me gratification at this moment.
Страница 37 - In working upon the sensations of natural and superstitious fear, Mrs Radcliffe has made much use of obscurity and suspense, the most fertile source, perhaps, of sublime emotion ; for there are few dangers that do not become familiar to the firm mind, if they are presented to consideration as certainties, and in all their open and declared character ; whilst, on the other hand, the bravest have shrunk from the dark and the doubtful. To break off...
Страница 10 - I had not for ten years indulged the wish to couple so much as love and dove, when, finding Lewis in possession of so much reputation, and conceiving that, if I fell behind him in poetical powers, I considerably exceeded him in general information, I suddenly took it into my head to attempt the style by which he had raised himself to fame.
Страница 47 - ... affecting us with fear, which is solemn and awful, rather than painful ; and I am tempted to think that, if I were to write on the subject at all, it should have been during a period of life when I could have treated it with more interesting vivacity, and might have been at least amusing, if I could not be instructive. Even the present fashion of the world seems to be ill suited for studies of this fantastic nature ; and the most ordinary mechanic has learning sufficient to laugh at the figments...
Страница 41 - If he had pleased to put into language the " squeaking and gibbering" of those disembodied phantoms which haunted the streets of Rome, no doubt his wonderful imagination could have filled up the sketch, which, marked by these two emphatic and singularly felicitous expressions, he has left as characteristic of the language of the dead. In this point of view, our authoress has, with equal judgment and accuracy, confined her flight...
Страница 126 - ... into the lists, and commanded them to unhelm the conquered champion. His eyes were closed - the dark red flush was still on his brow. As they looked on him in astonishment, the eyes opened - but they were fixed and glazed. The flush passed from his brow, and gave way to the pallid hue of death. Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. "This is indeed the judgment of God/' said the Grand Master, looking upwards - "'Fiat voluntas...
Страница 37 - To break off the narrative, when it seemed at the point of becoming most interesting - to extinguish a lamp, just when a parchment containing some hideous secret ought to have been read - to exhibit shadowy forms and halfheard sounds of woe, are resources which Mrs Radcliffe has employed with more effect than any other writer of romance.
Страница 44 - It is impossible to subject tales of this nature to criticism. They are not the visions of a poetical mind, they have scarcely even the seeming authenticity which the hallucinations of lunacy convey to the patient; they are the feverish dreams of a light-headed patient, to which, though they may sometimes excite by their peculiarity, or surprise by their oddity, we never feel disposed to yield more than momentary attention. In fact, the inspirations of...