 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1900 - 514 pages
...reverently appropriate them for the moment : — "It is true that I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation [observance?] of complete accuracy even...writing the dialogue of the piece in Anglo-Saxon, or in Norman-French [in Latin or in Greek], and which prohibits my sending forth this essay printed with... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1897 - 596 pages
...the private life of our ancestors, centuries ago; it confesses that " Ivanhoe " does not pretend to " complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...the more important points of language and manners." Antiquarian erudition, it urges, must in some cases give way to the fair license allowed to the author... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 610 pages
...his taste or pleasure may dictate.' And again : — 'I neither can nor do pretend to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...the more important points of language and manners. ... It is necessary, for exciting interest of any kind, that the subject assumed should be, as it were,... | |
 | Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 168 pages
...and relative truth in O Chronista: It is true that I neither can nor do pretend to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...dialogue of the piece in Anglo-Saxon or in Norman French, (...) prevents my attempting to confine myself within the limits of the period in which my story is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2001 - 396 pages
...by the following considerations. It is true, that I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...which prevents my writing the dialogue of the piece hi Anglo-Saxon or in Norman-French, and which prohibits my sending forth to the public this essay printed... | |
 | Georg Lukács - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...Ivanhoc he writes on this question : "It is true that I neither can nor do pretend to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume,...dialogue of the piece in Anglo-Saxon or in Norman French, and which prohibits my sending forth to the public this essay printed with the types of Caxton or Wynken... | |
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It is true, that I neither can, nor do pretend, to the observation of complete accuracy, even in matters of outward costume, much less in the more important points of language and manners. 
