Mysterious Legends Of Edinburgh: Now For The First Time Told In Print - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 116357788X ISBN 13: 9781163577882

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Demosthenes, the wine of A nacreon, or the opium of Coleridge, the author has a few words to say as to the class to which it belongs ;and these have been suggested by a descriptive epithet bestowed by an influential journal on his prior work of Storied Traditions. These have been baptized annalistic fiction, a term not altogether happy, insomuch as, according to the authority of Sir Walter Scott seuphuistic knight of the sheers, it may, and, if sound, ought to stand the test of being reversed, so that we would have, as the characteristic of the book, feigned annals. This would certainly be untrue, for the annals, however meagre, and, so far as regards quantity, like another knights ration of bread, are, nevertheless, not fiction, any more than the said bread was spiced sack. If it were to be objected, that while he has generally indicated his sources, he has not stated the amount of matter derived from them, it may be a very good answer to say, that his object was merely to tell a story which might be invested with so much more of that verisimilitude derived from an imitation of nature as would result from truth being at the bottom of the superstructure.
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• ISBN 10: 116357788X
• ISBN 13: 9781163577882
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