 | Clara Reeve - 1811 - 304 էջ
...obvious, the machinery is so violent, that it destroys the effect it is instended to excite. Had the story been kept within the utmost verge of probability,...preserved, without losing the least circumstance that exr cites or detains the attention. For instance; we can conceive, and' allow of, the appearance of... | |
 | 1816 - 550 էջ
...the effect it is intended to excite. Had the story been kept within the utmost verge of probahility, the effect had been preserved, without losing the...circumstance that excites or detains the attention. I For instance ; we can conceive, and allow of, the appearance of a ghost ; we can even dispense with... | |
 | 1820 - 328 էջ
...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,...they must keep within certain limits of credibility. A sword so large as to require an hundred men to lift it; a helmet that by its own weight forces a... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1820 - 328 էջ
...— 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,...they must keep within certain limits of credibility. A sword so large as to require an hundred men to lift it; a helmet that by its own weight forces a... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1834 - 170 էջ
...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,...with an enchanted sword and helmet : but then they may keep within certain limits of eredibility. A sword so large as to require an hundred men to lift... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1851 - 198 էջ
...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,...they must keep within certain limits of credibility. A sword so large as to require a hundred men to lift it; a helmet that by its own weight forces a passage... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1895 - 788 էջ
...Otranto.' ' 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,...losing the least circumstance that excites or detains attention.' Miss Reeve's idea was to cut down the supernatural to an irreducible minimum, which ' the... | |
 | Clara Reeve - 1883 - 448 էջ
...machinery is so violent that it destroys the effect it is intended to excite. Had the story been kepF within the utmost verge of probability, the effect...sword and helmet ; but then they . . must keep within certain_limits of credibility. A sword so large as to require a hundred men to lift it ; a helmet that... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 էջ
...Had the story been kept within the utmost verge of probability, the effect had been preserved. . . For instance, we can conceive and allow of the appearance...they must keep within certain limits of credibility. A sword so large as to require a hundred men to lift it, a helmet that by its own weight forces a passage... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 էջ
...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. . . For instance, we can conceive and allow of the appearance of a ghost; we can even dispense with... | |
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Had the story been kept within the utmost verge of probability, the effect had been preserved, without losing the least circumstance that excites or detains the attention. 
