 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "grateful... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1983 - 202 pages
...historian has no other labour than of gathering what tradition pours down before him."— R. No, 122. "Some have advanced without due attention to the consequences...correspondent faults, and therefore, to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability."— R. No. 4. "But, if the power of example is so great as to take... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1803 - 522 pages
...excellences; but such have been, in all ages, the great corruptors of the world ; and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved than the art of murdering without pain."' Estimating novels, then, not as they might be .. made, but as they are in fact, it may be asserted,... | |
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... but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved than the art of murdering without pain. 
