 | Martina Mittag - 2002 - 280 pages
...at the truth. Grabes, The Mutable Glass, 233 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 äs safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, äs upon a mirrour which shews all that presents... | |
 | Michael Prince - 1996 - 316 pages
...proper for imitation ... If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it would be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe...the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror that shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient vindication... | |
 | Roger Lonsdale - 2006 - 488 pages
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 | 1927 - 588 pages
...and success, to regulate their own practices. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account, or why...that presents itself without discrimination. It is not a sufficient vindication of a narrative, that the train of events is agreeable to observation and... | |
 | 2000 - 556 pages
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 | René Wellek - 1977 - 768 pages
...same«. 32. Rambler Nr. 4. Works, 2, 23—4: »If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account: or why...all that presents itself without discrimination.« 33. Rasselas, Kp. io. Works, }, 449: »The business of the poet is to examine, not the individual,... | |
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 | 1970
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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. 
