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History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.

Robert Aris Willmott
Drama, Moving, Epic
Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

The drama is the book of the people.

Robert Aris Willmott
Drama, Book, People
Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.

Robert Aris Willmott
Art, Drama, Light
Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87

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