This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...of her own peculiar style of writing, which may, perhaps, be considered as holding a sort of middle class, between the romance of chivalry and the modern tale of terror, though equally remote from both. She unites the beautiful and the touching in her descriptions, with the mysterious and the awful, and there ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ...of her own peculiar style of writing, which may, perhaps, be considered as holding a sort of middle class, between the romance of chivalry and the modern tale of terror, though equally remote from both. She unites the beautiful and the touching in her descriptions, with the mysterious and the awful, and there are some who think she excels in the former even more than the latter. It is well said of her, that "she only, of all writers of ro- mance who have awed and affected the public mind by hints of things unseen, has employed enchantments purely innocent; has forborne to raise one questionable throb, or call forth a momentary blush. This is the great test not only of moral feeling, but of intellectual power, and in this will be found her highest praise." Mrs. Radcliffe's peculiar talent appears to have been for descriptive and interesting narrative, rather than for the delineation of feelings or character. Her heroines generally resemble each other; they are all "lovely, and gentle, and distressed;" they have, it has been said, all "blue eyes and auburn hair--the form of each has the airy lightness of a nymph," and they are all decorous, proper-behaved damsels, in whose adventures we are interested rather than in their characters. In conclusion, with reference to Mrs. Ratcliffe's literary performances, we may adduce the opinion of Sir Walter Scott, who observes, with his usual benevolence and kindness of heart--"Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared to the use of opiates, baneful when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of languor when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart is sick." LIST OF WORKS. The...
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