Specimens of the Novelists and Romancers (Volume 1); With Critical and Biographical Notices of the Authors

Specimens of the Novelists and Romancers (Volume 1); With Critical and Biographical Notices of the Authors

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	Specimens of the Novelists and Romancers (Volume 1); With Critical and Biographical Notices of the Authors Average Customer Review:

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. 1831. Excerpt: ... space, and then the sound of many joyful voices, which again, by degrees, subsided. The eyes of all then looked, iindyet feared to look towards the door. Jacob Mayne was not so good as his word, for he did not bring Lucy by the hand to restore her to her parents, but, dressed again in her own bonnet, and her gown, and her own plaid, in rushed their child, by herself, with tears and sobs of joy, and her father laid her within her mother's bosom. JOHN GALT. It were difficult to characterize, in a general manner, the style of a writer whose pen, like that of Mr. Galt, has been employed in describing the manners of Greece as it lately was, and'in composing tragedies on the model of its ancient authors--in transcribing state papers of Wolsey's time, and in writing dramas for the modern stage--in portraying the fatal ravages of pestilence under Edward III. as well as in commemorating a late royal visit to the metropolis of Scotland. His first acknowledged production, 'Voyages and Travels, containing Observations on Sicily and Turkey,' appeared in 1812. 'The Lifeand Administration of Cardinal Wolsey,'--and a volume entitled, 'Reflections on Political and Commercial Subjects,' were succeeded, before the close of the same year, by 'Four Tragedies' after the manner of iEschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, possessed of merits that might have softened the asperity with which he has invariably been treated in the Quarterly Review. In 1813 he published 'Letters from the Levant, containing Views of the State of Society in Greece.' A 'Life of President West,' and 'The Majola, a Tale,' were given to the world in 1816; soon after which he brought forward 'The Witness,' a dramatic poem whose powei1 and passion were such as induced many to attribute v «.. it to Mr. Cole... ...Read more