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. 1830 Excerpt: ...new situations must occasionally arise: but these are few, and generally ill adapted for fiction. That they are few is clear from any comparison of the works of different ages, and from the fact, that the circumstances fit for fictitious use arise almost entirely from the passions, which are always stronger in ...
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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. 1830 Excerpt: ...new situations must occasionally arise: but these are few, and generally ill adapted for fiction. That they are few is clear from any comparison of the works of different ages, and from the fact, that the circumstances fit for fictitious use arise almost entirely from the passions, which are always stronger in proportion to the absence of refinement. The same argument will prove them ill adapted for fiction, which requires a degree of picturesque originality about its incidents, seldom attainable by the creation of new circumstances. In the case of incidents already used, refined ages may be conceived to have the opportunity of combining, varying, and sometimes of improving them. But surely it is no argument in favour of refined ages, to prove that they are driven to combine anew incidents which the prior use of earlier times has prevented them from introducing in their obvious form, even though there may appear an occasional instance in which such alteration has been attended with success. But the most distinct proof of the superiority of rude ages in the fiction of incident, is to be derived from the practice of modern writers themselves. Nothing is more common with them, than to borrow from ages of rudeness, incidents which are to be improved afterwards by the addition of character from more advanced times. We never find them making use of the circumstances of the age of Pericles, or of Augustus in works of fiction. Arcadia and Sicily, rudeness and simplicity, are the themes upon which the consent of writers seems to determine that fiction of incident is most properly employed. This will account for the general pleasure that is perceived in pastoral poetry, and for the eagerness with which any relics of rudeness or ignorance are still observed by all who...
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