 In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity;...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 22by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
...combinations of images. In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so 35 remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was...were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had 4o neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...themselves the meaning of what language stands for. In the old romances, Johnson complained in Rambler 4: "the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself . . . he amused himself with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of... | |
 | Bradford K. Mudge - 2000 - 298 pages
...increase dramatically. "In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men that the reader was in very little danger of making any application to himself," but in contemporary novels, where the "adventurer is leveled with the rest... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 pages
...the fiction writer. "In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was...danger of making any applications to himself." The "familiar histories" of today "may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 2005 - 232 pages
...contrasts "the romances formerly written, [in which] every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was...little danger of making any applications to himself," to the modern novel which had eliminated this gap between the world of fiction and the world of the... | |
 | 1927 - 588 pages
...Dr. Johnson, that " in the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment were so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any application to himself: the virtues and crimes were equally beyond the sphere of his activity ; and... | |
 | 1750 - 664 pages
...the romances formerly written cvery tranfaction and fentimcnt was fo remote from alt that, paflès among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf; the virtues and crimes were equally be-- yond his fphere of activity ; and he Î-L mufed himfelf... | |
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