 He that instructs must offer to the mind something to be imitated, or something to be avoided ; he that pleases must offor new images to his reader, and enable him to form a tacit comparison of his own state with that of others. • The greater part of...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 43by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 pages
...ofFpr to the mind something to be imitated, or something to be avoided ; he that pleases must offer new images to his reader, and enable him to form a...tacit comparison of his own state with that of others. The.greater part of travellers tell nothing, because their method of travelling supplies them with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...offer to the mind something to be imitated, or something to be avoided ; he that pleases must offer new images to his reader, and enable him to form a tacit comparison of his ov/n, state with that of others. The greater part of travellers tell nothing, because their method... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pages
...confusedly when every part is so blended with the other that no one feature can be distinguished ; ' He that enters a town at night and surveys it in the morning, then hastens to another place, may please himself for a time with a hasty change of scene and a confused... | |
 | George Crabb - 1854 - 542 pages
...confusfdly when every part is »i blended with the other that no one feature can Ьн distinguished ; 'lie that enters a town at night and surveys it in the morning, then hastens to another place, may please himself for a time with a hasty change of eccne ami a confuted... | |
 | George Crabb - 1882 - 876 pages
...opened, nothing is founil but such pencnil accounts as leave no ^i»iinct ide;i behind them. JOHNSON. lie that enters a town at night and surveys it in the morning, then hastens to another place, may please himself for a time with a hasty change of scene and a cuiiftufeil... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 79. The greater part of travellers tell nothing, Travellers . '. i , ,- «. . because their method of travelling supplies them with nothing to be told. — Idler, No. 97. Modern The information which we have from rave ers mo(jern travellers is much more... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 pages
...observations in Volume Seven of Tristram Shandy and throughout A Sentimental Journey. Johnson observed: The greater part of travellers tell nothing, because...that enters a town at night and surveys it in the mornrng, and then hastens away to another place ... he that would travel for the entertainment of others,... | |
 | Robert Eisner - 1991 - 340 pages
...disguise the quickness or absence of their visits. Samuel Johnson complained in The Idler (97) that "the greater part of travellers tell nothing, because...travelling supplies them with nothing to be told." They arrive somewhere at night, tour in the morning, and leave in the afternooon— an accusation leveled... | |
 | C. D. Van Strien - 1993 - 484 pages
...Johnson, the reading public in the second half of the eighteenth century expected a traveller to "offer new images to his reader and enable him to form a...comparison of his own state with that of others". Readers wanted a traveller to give them the impression that he or she "had copied nature from the life"... | |
 | 1927 - 466 pages
...travelers. . . . The greater part of the travelers tell nothing, because their method of traveling supplies them with nothing to be told. He that enters...the manners of the inhabitants by the entertainment that his inn afforded him, may please himself at times with a hasty change of scenes . . . but let... | |
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