 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...to be found in the Otia Imperialia of Gervase of Tilbury. A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission...the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery-tale of the subsequent ages. Such an investigation, while it went greatly to diminish our ideas... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...Imperialia of Gervase of Tilhary. A work of great interest might he compiled npon the origin of popnlar fiction, and the transmission of similar tales from age to age, and f.om conntry to conntry. The mythology of one period wwnld then appear to pass into the romance of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...And we shall observe, in the words of Walter Scott, ' that a work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction and the transmission...that into the nursery tale of the subsequent ages.' Fiction thus resolves itself into its primitive elements, as by the slow and unceasing action of the... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...And we shall observe, in the words of Walter Scott, ' that a work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction and the transmission...mythology of one period would then appear to pass mto the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery tale of the subsequent ages.' Fiction... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...to be found in the Otia Imperialia of Gervase of Tilbury. A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission...the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery-tale of the subsequent ages. Such an investigation, while it went greatly to diminish our ideas... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...Walter Scott's remarks in his notes to the Lady of the Lake: "A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission...the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery-tales of the subsequent ages." With all deference, every new light on Northern romance (or... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...Scott's remarks in his notes to the Lady of the Lalte: "A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission...the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery-tales of the subsequent ages." With all deference, every new light on Northern romance (or... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...period would then appear to pass into the romance of the next century, and that into the nur. sery -tale of the subsequent ages. Such an investigation, while it went greatly to dimmish our ideas of the richness of human invention, would also shew, that these fictions, however... | |
 | William John Thoms - English literature - 1828 - 336 pages
...everworking brain of the fabulist. " A work of great interest," says Sir Walter Scott, " might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction and the transmission...that into the nursery tale of the subsequent ages;" but the research demanded fgr the completion of such a work would necessarily require the deepest and... | |
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A work of great interest might be compiled upon the origin of popular fiction, and the transmission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the next century,... 
