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When men had still about them all the vigour of their primitive life, and all the enthusiasm of commencing civilisation - such an era by natural consequence teemed with characters, enterprises, vicissitudes, &c., dramatic because so pregnant with individualism and with action. I have adopted without scruple the rough, bold features of these times, wherever, like rocks and cataracts in a landscape, they appeared to give the scene poetical impressiveness. If they realised, as it were, those times to myself while ruminating over them, I supposed they would have a like effect upon the reader. He will recollect, however, the popular distinction between History and Chronicle, - the latter admitting a degree of romance and inter mixture of tradition, besides a picturesque enrichment by materials which are Splendid rubbish to the mere annalist, but to the dramatist most precious. Though preserving the general line and sequence of facts as they happened, I have subordinated them, of poetic right.
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When men had still about them all the vigour of their primitive life, and all the enthusiasm of commencing civilisation - such an era by natural consequence teemed with characters, enterprises, vicissitudes, &c., dramatic because so pregnant with individualism and with action. I have adopted without scruple the rough, bold features of these times, wherever, like rocks and cataracts in a landscape, they appeared to give the scene poetical impressiveness. If they realised, as it were, those times to myself while ruminating over them, I supposed they would have a like effect upon the reader. He will recollect, however, the popular distinction between History and Chronicle, - the latter admitting a degree of romance and inter mixture of tradition, besides a picturesque enrichment by materials which are Splendid rubbish to the mere annalist, but to the dramatist most precious. Though preserving the general line and sequence of facts as they happened, I have subordinated them, of poetic right.
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