top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Adventure quotes
"Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you face a great problem in life, don't get scared. Consider it a great adventure. Ultimately it will shape your life with charm."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Adventure is a way of worthy life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Adversity is an adventure."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The most daring adventure in life is life itself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Begin the journey. The whole world is waiting to help you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren
"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
Experience
"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure."
Discovery
"IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction."
Life
"The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers."
Work
"Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel."
Adventure
"In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked."
Death
"Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained."
Life
"Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit."
Love
bottom of page