Moreover, to get point and appeal, it was especially necessary to _throw up_ the subject--incident, emotion, or whatever it was--to bring it out; not merely to meander and palaver about it.

But language and literature were both too much in a state of transition to admit of anything capital being done at this time.

It was the great good fortune of England, corresponding to that experienced with Chaucer in poetry three quarters of a century earlier, that Malory came to give the sum and substance of what mediaeval fiction could do in prose.

For more, the times and the men had to come..