...fact is instinctively required of the novel. 'Your Shakespeare fashions his characters from the hearts outwards; your Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting near the hearts of them.' So wrote Carlyle, himself an unrivalled painter of men from the skin outwards, in...

...nearer the heart of them." " The one set," Mr. Carlyle says, meaning the creations of Shakespeare, " become living men and women; the other amount to little more than mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." " Not profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for edification, for building...

...they are of a different species; the value of the one is not to be counted in the coin of the other. We might say in a short word, which covers a long...other amount to little more than mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons.' 4 And then he goes on to contrast Fenella in Peveril of the Peak with...

...say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his characters froni the heart outwards ; your Scott fashions them from...living men and women ; the other amount to little more thau mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons. Compare Fenella with Goethe's Mignon, which,...

...creator of character; but Carlyle says : " Shakespeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards: Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting...other amount to little more than mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." But to ordinary readers no characters can be more real and lifelike...

...creator of character; but Carlyle says, ' Shakspere fashions his characters from the heart outwards : Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting...other amount to little more than mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons.' But to ordinary readers no characters can be more real and lifelike...

...creator of character; but Carlyle says : " Shakespeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards: Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting...other amount to little more than mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons." But to ordinary readers no characters can be more real and lifelike...

...different species; the value of the one is not to be counted in the coin of the other," and he goes on, "we might say in a short word which covers a long...characters from the heart outwards: your Scott fashions from 1 One is that instanced by Mr. Trollope in his life of Thackeray, the death of Bothwell in ' Old...

...different species; the value of the one is not to be counted in the coin of the other," and he goes on, " we might say in a short word which covers a long matter...characters from the heart outwards: your Scott fashions from 1 One is that instanced by Mr. Trollope in his life of Thackeray, the death of Bothwell in ' Old...

...different species; the value of the one is not to be counted in the coin of the other," and he goes on, "we might say in a short word which covers a long...characters from the heart outwards: your Scott fashions from 1 One is that instanced by Mr. Trollope in his life of Thackeray, the death of Bothwell in ' Old...