 In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself...  The Rambler - Page 22by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
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...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity; and he amused himself with... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity; and he amused himself with... | |
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
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 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...themselves the meaning of what language stands for. In the old romances, Johnson complained in Rambler 4: "the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself . . . he amused himself with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with... | |
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 | Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort - 2003 - 872 pages
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 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 pages
..."In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself." The "familiar histories" of today "may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 2005 - 232 pages
...romances formerly written, [in which] every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself," to the modern novel which had eliminated this gap between the world of fiction and the world... | |
 | 1750 - 664 pages
...the romances formerly written cvery tranfaction and fentimcnt was fo remote from alt that, paflès among men, that the reader was in very little danger...applications to himfelf; the virtues and crimes were equally be-- yond his fphere of activity ; and he Î-L mufed himfelf with heroes and with traitors, deliverers... | |
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