...who had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes...with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part....

...who had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as 5. Pliny, Natural History, XXXv .36.85. 6. Juvenal, Xlv. may be the lot of any other man; young spectators...

...young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, and hope by observing his behaviour and success to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part" (Rambler 4,3:21). The prince of Abyssinia's privileged social position provides him with the opportunity...

...note that Johnson sees an increasing danger of influence from more realistic genres, or what he terms "the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man," as opposed to romances of the past (2.1). See also Kendrick's discussion of Johnson, 25. 2.8. For example,...

...who had 4o neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes...with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and success, to regulate their own practise, when 45 they shall be engaged in the like part....

...Johnson's more familiar statement in The Rambler, no. 4 (1751) that "when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes...him with closer attention, and hope by observing his behaviour and success to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in like part. For...

...himself," but in contemporary novels, where the "adventurer is leveled with the rest of the world . . . young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer...behavior and success, to regulate their own practices. . . ." Thus moralists have more reason to be concerned about novels than ever before, particularly...

...who had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes...with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part....

...argued in issue number 4 of the Rambler, "when the adventurer [in a fictional work] is leveled with the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal...with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part...

...traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes...with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and success, to regulate their own practices. If the world be promiscuously described, I...