 When we, at this distance of time, inquire what prodigious merits excited such admiration, what do we find? Great valour. — But it was an age of heroes. — In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which...  A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Page 219by Horace Walpole - 1806Full view - About this book
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 654 pages
...ridicule. Hornee Walpole characterized it as "a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pa^f er.il romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through." Mr Ibzlitt, ;i more rec-'nt critic, luis exprvwwd a condemnation f'pmlly sweeping. T h «»re bas been... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...perpetuate. By Walpole the work is characterised as 'a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, the which he was not ware that it was by other devised that he the judgment more recently pronounced by Dr Drake and Hazlitt is almost equally unfavourable. On the... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...of heroes ! In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot...attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains.' There could scarcely be a better specimen of the jugement saugrenu. Happily the antiquarian revival... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...of heroes ! In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot...attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains.' There could scarcely be a better specimen of the jugement saugrenu. Happily the antiquarian revival... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...of heroes ! In full of all other talents, we have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot...some absurd attempts to fetter English verse in Roman chains.1 There could scarcely be a better specimen of the jugement saugrenu. Happily the antiquarian... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Authors, English - 1886 - 220 pages
...undoubtedly prove wearisome to modern readers. Horace Walpole was not far wrong when he asserted that " the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through " that jungle of pastoral, sentimental, and heroical adventures. A brief outline of the tale, together... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 212 pages
...undoubtedly prove wearisome to modern readers. Horace Walpole was not far wrong when he asserted that "the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through" that jungle of pastoral, sentimental, and heretical adventures. A brief outline of the tale, together... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 214 pages
...undoubtedly prove wearisome to modern readers. Horace Walpole was not far wrong when he asserted that "the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through " that jungle of pastoral, sentimental, and heroical adventures. A brief outline of the tale, together... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Great Britain - 1889 - 396 pages
...sons of Anak), says of the " Arcadia," that" it is a tedious, lamentable, pedantic, pastoral romance, which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through." We may doubt whether Walpole could altogether estimate the patience of a reader so extremely unlike... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English fiction - 1890 - 466 pages
...have a tedious, lamentable, pedantic pastoral romance," says he, in his " Royal and Noble Authors," " which the patience of a young virgin in love cannot now wade through." 3 It is sad to think that the once famous " Castle of Otranto," though twenty times shorter, requires... | |
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