 | Robert J. Griffin - 1995 - 208 pages
...precisely not mirror-like, but is highly selective: "If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why...may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon nature, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination." w All art may... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 1996 - 524 pages
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 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 pages
...on novels, for example, Johnson argues that "If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why...shows all that presents itself without discrimination" (R 4; 3.22). That "promiscuous description" that Johnson here abjures for other written accounts of... | |
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
...wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the 65 account: or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shews all that presents itself without discrimination. 12. [ANONYMOUS] (1751) Aus An... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody - 1996 - 640 pages
...world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the accoum; or why is may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind , , ," iRambler No, 4 [March 1750], Works, IV: 23t, A novel cannot really be a mirror, reflecting without... | |
 | Raymond Tallis - 1998 - 236 pages
...Anthology, (London: Picador, 1972). If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use if can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eyes immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.21... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pages
...nature, which are most proper for imitation. ... If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why...shows all that presents itself without discrimination. (3.22) Johnson's objection here to "promiscuous" description of the world is primarily moral, but similar... | |
 | P. D. James - 2000 - 312 pages
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 | Mary Hays - 2000 - 344 pages
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 | Stephen Halliwell - 2009 - 440 pages
...to our experience of the world. "If the world be promiscuously described," he writes, "I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account, or why...mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination."61 It is important to spell out the corollary of this point, which constitutes a less... | |
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If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a ' mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. 
