"Realistically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... however are worthy of attention, notably one in which imitation of Scarron and Furetiere is to be found, entitled "The Adventures of Covent Garden."[360] The scene is laid in London among the cultivated upper middle class: life is so realistically represented, that this work, now entirely unknown, is one of those that best aid us to re-constitute that society in which Dryden, Wycherley and ...
— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand
... methought it was as tho some soft womanish actor on the tragic stage should give us Achilles or Theseus or Heracles himself; he can not stride nor speak out as a hero should, but minces along under his enormous mask; Helen or Polyxena would find him too realistically feminine to pass for them; and what shall an invincible Heracles say? Will he not swiftly pound man and mask together into nothingness with his club, for ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various
... over her, making guttural noises, which I did so realistically that it made shivers run up and down ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp |
