 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1784 - 316 pages
...adventure, phrafe, and infmuation, that could be conjtrued by the moft delicate reader into a trefpafs upon the rules of decorum. He owns with contrition, that in one or two inftances, he gave way too much to the fuggejlions of perfonal refentment, and reprefented cbaraiHrs... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 480 pages
...adventure, phrafe, and infinuation, that could be conftrued by the moft delicate reader into a trefpafs upon the rules of decorum. He owns, with contrition, that, in one or two inftances, he gave way too much to the fuggeftions of.perfonal refentment, and represented characters... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...profligate memoirs of lady Vane. It is only wonderful that after this lie could" flatter himself that he had expunged every adventure, phrase, and insinuation, that could be construed, by the most delicate readers, into a trespass и|юп the rules of decorum." In this work, as in Roderick Random, he indulged... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1811 - 494 pages
...heighten ; and he flatters himself that he has expunged every adventure, phrase, and insinuation, fhat could be construed by the most delicate reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum. Vol. II. b He owns, with contrition, that, in one or two instances, lie gave way too much to the suggestions... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 518 pages
...memoirs of lady Vane. It is only wonderful, that after this he could " flatter himself that he had expunged every adventure, phrase, and insinuation that could be construed by the most .delicate readers into a trespass upon the rules of decorum." In this work, as in " Roderick Random," he indulged... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 522 pages
...memoirs of lady Vane. It is only wonderful, that after this he could " flatter himself that he had expunged every adventure, phrase, and insinuation that could be construed by the most delicate readers into a trespass upon the rules of decorum." In this work, as in " Roderick Random," he indulged... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 494 pages
...are wholly suppressed: some humorous scenes he has endeavoured to heighten ; and he flatters himself that he has expunged every adventure, phrase, and...reader into a trespass upon the, rules of decorum. Vol. II. b He owns, with contrition, that, in one or two instances, he gave way too much to the suggestions... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 746 pages
...the T2d year of her life. xii PEEFATORY MEMOIR. has endeavoured to heighten ; and he flatters himself that he has expunged every adventure, phrase, and...represented characters, as they appeared to him at the time, through the exaggerated medium of prejudice. But he has in this impression endeavoured to... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...are wholly suppressed ; some humorous scenes he has endeavoured to heighten ; and he flatters himself that he has expunged every adventure, phrase, and...represented characters, as they appeared to him at the time, through the exaggerated medium of prejudice. But he has, in this impression, endeavoured... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1831 - 472 pages
...those who were thus treated ; and Smollett himself confesses, in the preface to the second edition, that ' in one or two instances, he gave way too much...time, through the exaggerating medium of prejudice.' He endeaToured, it is true, to make atonement for this conduct hy acknowledging it, and altering the... | |
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He owns with contrition, that, in one or two instances, he gave way too much to the suggestions of personal resentment, and represented characters, as they appeared to him at the time, through the exaggerated medium of prejudice. 
