Robert Aris Willmott - History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majes

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

source: Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

topic: Drama, Moving, Epic, Alps, Winding Down, Robinson Crusoe, Hector