 The works of fiction with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really...  The Rambler: In Four Volumes - Page 18by Samuel Johnson - 1784Full view - About this book
 | Norma Clarke - History - 2001 - 282 pages
...histories' had become popular. These were stories which represented 'life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind'. Unlike earlier fictions,... | |
 | Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort - Social Science - 2003 - 872 pages
...generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind. Johnson shrewdly notes... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 308 pages
...the first half of the eighteenth century, realist works "exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind" (1968, p. 18). The... | |
 | David Mikics - Reference - 2008 - 364 pages
...generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind." For Johnson, such... | |
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