"Fictitious character" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and not to strangers; I cannot consider you as such, for men who devote themselves to their country must find a brother in every honest breast. I will not hear of our meeting on any other terms." [Footnote: This generous man is no fictitious character, the original being Dr. Blackburne, late of Cavendish Square; but who, since the above was written, has long retired from his profession, passing a revered old age in the beautiful neighborhood of our old British classic scenes, ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter
... story turns upon the private adventures of a fictitious character, but is called a Tale of Flodden Field, because the hero's fate is connected with that memorable (p. 215) defeat and the causes which led to it.... The poem opens about the commencement of August, and concludes with the defeat of Flodden, ...
— A Mother's List of Books for Children • Gertrude Weld Arnold |
