The Making of History: A Study of the Literary Forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton in Relation to Eighteenth-century Ideas of History and FictionFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986 - 228 頁 The literary forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton are studied within the context of the eighteenth-century debate about the validity of using literature as a historical source and history as a literary topic. |
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第 1 到 3 筆結果,共 28 筆
第 44 頁
... invention to occupy ; each nation , with a vanity inseparable from human nature , hath filled that void with events calculated to display its own antiquity , and lustre . And history , which ought to record truth and teach wisdom ...
... invention to occupy ; each nation , with a vanity inseparable from human nature , hath filled that void with events calculated to display its own antiquity , and lustre . And history , which ought to record truth and teach wisdom ...
第 55 頁
... invention to work upon .. 31 Aristotle means no more than that it is the business of a poet not to be a mere annalist of Facts , but to embellish truth with beautiful , proba- ble , and useful fictions . . . . that Ossian has followed ...
... invention to work upon .. 31 Aristotle means no more than that it is the business of a poet not to be a mere annalist of Facts , but to embellish truth with beautiful , proba- ble , and useful fictions . . . . that Ossian has followed ...
第 171 頁
... inventions , and impressing upon the rising generation false ideas of the age which I describe . 55 We are back to the ... invention was always within " legitimate bounds . " 58 ( We are reminded here of John Home's comments in Alfred ...
... inventions , and impressing upon the rising generation false ideas of the age which I describe . 55 We are back to the ... invention was always within " legitimate bounds . " 58 ( We are reminded here of John Home's comments in Alfred ...
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