 | Alfred Turner - 1916 - 276 pages
...to " The Rambler." In this same publication there is a paper dated 1750 written to show that it is not a sufficient vindication of a character that it is drawn as it appears ; for, contends the author of " Rasselas "— " many characters ought never to be drawn . . . and the purpose... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...nature, which are most proper for imitation." 5 " 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 safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shows all that presents itself... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - 1952 - 506 pages
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 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pages
...standards. He recognizes that realism is not enough. "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." " His usual remedy is moral selection. But this moral selection is assumed to proceed to "general and... | |
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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. 
