 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 as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 23by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account...be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind ts upon mirror which shows all that presents itsell without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account...safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon l ! mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickndncíts If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot sec of what use it can be to read the account : or why...safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon i mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account:...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is, therefore, not a sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...so often discolored by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account;...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that 15 presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...wickedness, be promiscuously 202) L. II, 254. 203) L. III, 99. 20*) Ra. 4. 205) BJ IV, 16 ff. described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account. Der Dichter soll sich auch davor hüten, Charaktere zu schildern, deren gute und schlechte Eigenschaften... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...parts of nature, which are most proper for imitation." 5 " 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 eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shows all that presents itself... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pages
...moral standards. He recognizes that realism is not enough. "If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account:...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination." " His usual remedy is moral selection.... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...so often discolored by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account;...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.5 It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...so often discoloured by passion, or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account;...to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination. It is therefore not a sufficient... | |
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