Now all the great romancers have been born to it, as Robinson Crusoe was born to the sea, or as Turner was born to paint.
Perhaps other born romancers would have thrown into it more life, energy, jollity, or passion.
The medieval minstrels and romancers of the higher class and the dramatists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had indeed supported themselves largely or wholly by their works, but not by printing them.
To Scott's position of unquestioned supremacy among romancers and novelists Charles Dickens succeeded almost immediately on Scott's death, but certain secondary early Victorian novelists may be considered before him.
Kormak was too rude and natural for romance, and theromancers had to make their heroes better-looking, and to provide a happy ending.
The romancers of the twelfth century were in the same position as modern authors in regard to their choice of subjects.
The elder romancersand the latest seers do insist together that they are, that such highways indeed as the moon lays on the water are translunary and come with purposes from a celestial city.
The romancers have a simple faith, and the seers an ingenious theory about it.
The princess was beautiful and accomplished, and bore the same name with the Queen of Cornwall; but this one is designated by the Romancers as Isoude of the White Hands, to distinguish her from Isoude the Fair.
More yellow was her head than the flower of the broom, [Footnote: The romancers dwell with great complacency on the fair hair and delicate complexion of their heroines.
What Dickens and other romancers do probably omit from the picture of the eighteenth-century oligarch is probably his liberality.
Dickens and romancers make the pre-revolution tyrant a sincere believer in tyranny; generally he was not.
Then, too, it has a beginning, middle and end, which is what historians as well as romancers love.
She multiplies them as romancers multiply adventures.
It remains, however, an episode; the rococoromancers did not last.
By comparison most of the local colorists of his period seem homespun and most of the romancers a little tawdry.
The popular romancers have contrived to mingle passion for money and susceptibility to moralism somewhat upon the analogy of those lucky thaumaturgists who are able to eat their cake and have it too.
But the Greek romancers were the first who had really busied themselves with the heroine: they took her up seriously and gave her a considerable position.
But--let poets sing and romancers rave--there's nothing that starves as quickly as love.
But in my heart I know it is not so; and the romancers are mistaken; and so is the heart denied.
The romancers exaggerate, of course; but on this point even Harry scarcely outdoes Major or Bower.
The romancershave connected Jim and me with that, when as a matter of fact I was in Louisiana, Jim and Bob were at Dallas, and John was in California.
BELLE STARR One of the richest mines for the romancers who have pretended to write the story of my life was the fertile imagination of Belle Starr, who is now dead, peace to her ashes.
Morris was twice a Norman, in his love for the romancers and Gothic builders of northern France; and in his enthusiasm for the Icelandic sagas.
Far more attention is paid by Apuleius than by the Greek romancers to the narrator and to his point of view in telling the whole romance.
The possibility of expression is not yet rich, but by soliloquies, by descriptions of emotions, by reflections on events expressed in {gnomai} the romancers are working from objective to subjective presentation of their material.
It is difficult to say whether the style is borrowed from the historians of the East or the romancers of the West.
Through Dictys and through Virgil the Palamedes legend reached the poets and romancers of the Middle Ages: there is even a Palamedes, a paynim knight, at Arthur's court.
The governor of the Conciergerie would smile with an expression on his lips that would freeze the mere suggestion in the most daring of romancers who defy probability.
The fame of Arthur, once established among the Welsh Bards and the Romancers of Britanny, easily lent itself to exaggeration and attracted to itself much that was due to others or was purely imaginary.
But the women of the mediaeval Cours d'Amour (the originals from whom the old romancers drew) were nothing if not casuists.
But the mediaeval romancers disguised that form of the story, and the process of idealising Arthur reached such heights in the middle ages that Tennyson thought himself at liberty to paint the Flos Regum, "the blameless King.
The mediaeval romancersinvented a legend that Merlin was a virgin- born child of Satan.
The romancers followed the practices of the northern scalds[98], of naming the swords of knights: that of Sir Bevis of Hampton was called Morglay; and that of the Emperor Charlemagne himself Fusberta joyosa.
The true knight, he whose mind was formed in the best mould of chivalric principles, was a more perfect personification of love than poets and romancers have ever dreamed.
We now come to the Avatar, in which liberty is looked for by all the romancers in Italy.
The romancers find in it an exhaustless fund of their darkest scenes.
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