But the narration of stories is not the only way in which we can treat history.

He had been reading to Hector Sir Walter Scott's "Antiquary," in which occurs the narration of a digging for treasure in ruins not unlike these, only grander.

The restorative was speedily administered, and the pilgrim commenced his narration.

Confusing the narratio of oratory with narrative, Pontanus says: There are three virtues of a narration, brevity, probability and perspicuity.

So in the most quoted passage from Sidney's Defense, it is a "tale forsooth," which draws old men from the chimney corner, and children from play, and "the narration" which furnishes the groundplot of poesie.

The portion of his narrative which follows covers the main facts of the history, and the translation from the saga furnishes an excellent example of its quaint and simple narration.)

The form under which they appear, or the external character that marks them, is of three sorts: either purely dramatic, like the dialogue of tragedy or comedy; or purely narrative, where a former conversation is supposed to be committed to writing, and communicated to some absent friend; or of the mixed kind, like a narration in dramatic poems, where is recited, to some person present, the story of things past.

We shall, therefore, attempt a succinct narration of the life and actions of admiral Blake, in which we have nothing further in view, than to do justice to his bravery and conduct, without intending any parallel between his achievements, and those of our present admirals.

Francis mused some little time over his narration, ere he broke silence.

"And did you sign?" asked Mr. Pettibones, all agog to hear the conclusion of so strange a narration.

No course of reading could have supplied materials for a narration so faithfully descriptive of the accidents to which an AEgean pirate is exposed as The Corsair.

The exordium, in short, may be lengthened or contracted according to the subject matter, and the transition from thence to the narration easy and natural.

1900 AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS GIFT OF VIVID HISTORIC NARRATION

When he receives a good report of him whom he emulates, he saith, "Fame is partial, and is wont to blanche mischiefs;" and pleaseth himself with hope to find it worse; and if ill-will have dispersed any more spiteful narration, he lays hold on that, against all witnesses, and broacheth that rumour for truest because worst; and when he sees him perfectly miserable, he can at once pity him, and rejoice.

narración, f., narration, story.

relación, f., narration, story, narrative, account; relation. relacionarse, to be (or become) related (or connected).

relate, m., narration, narrative, story.

No matter how circumstantial might be a narration of the blacks, they invariably contradicted themselves the next time they were interrogated, and it was evident that no useful purpose would be served by following them on a foolish errand from place to place.

But this double synopsis is nearly, though not quite, confined to discourse; where it contains narration proper, as in the account of John the Baptist and the Centurion of Capernaum, discourse is largely mingled with it.

There can be little doubt indeed that they are the same as those whom he describes three sentences later and with only a momentary break in the oblique narration into which the passage is thrown, as 'the Presbyters, disciples of the Apostles.'

Quotation books have told us that in love, as well as in war, all is fair, and if this be true Barkis's ingratitude, the narration of which cannot now give pain to any one, becomes, after all, nothing more than a venial offence.

On the other hand the method of invisible narration had not at his time acquired the faculty which it possesses now of doing Friday's thinking aloud or exposing fully the workings of his mind.

For the mere narration of action in which the study of character plays a subsidiary part, it was, of course, from the beginning impossible.

Narration by Camilla Campbell.

When I had ended my narration, he said, "You will hereafter be called on to do more of such work.