| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| René Wellek - 1978 - 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,... | |
| Victor Francis Calverton - 1926 - 376 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 it may not be safe to turn the eyes immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself... | |
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