...great propriety. It is the object of the novelist to give a true picture of life, diversified only bv accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced...are really to be found in conversing with mankind. To accomplish this object, he conceives a hero or heroine, whom he places in a certain rank of life,...

...1750. Swud et jucunda et idonea dicere vibe. HOR. And join both profit and delight in one. CREECH. THE works of fiction, with which the present generation...daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions ana qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind. This kind of writing may be...

...tt jvfttndii et idónea dicere vit». HÖR. And juin both profit and delight in one. СХМСЯ. THE V& G[ !Y ;w b o ana qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind. This kind of writing may be...

...Simul et jucunda et idónea dicere vitf. воя. And join both profit and delight in one. CREECH. THE works of fiction, with which the present, generation seems more particularly delighted, I are such as exhibit life in ita true state, diver-l sitied only by accidents that daily happen in...

...Simvl tt jucvnda et idónea dicere rit«. ноя. And join both profit and delight in one. CREECH. THE works of fiction, with which the present generation...particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in ita true state, diversified only by accidenta that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions...

...allowed also Between the subject and predicate, if they consist each of a number of words; — as, The works of fiction with which the present generation...delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state. 395. The comma should never be inserted between a subject of few words and a predicate following immediately,...

...Irene than in his strictures upon Cato [quoted above]. (Elwin.) 3. Fiction. — The works of fiction are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified...are really to be found in conversing with mankind. . . . For this reason, these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities...

...idonea dicere vitw. HOB. Art of Poetry, 334. And join both profit and delight in one. — CREECH. THE works of fiction, with which the present generation...that daily happen in the world, and influenced by pas5 sions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind. This kind of writing...

...sentimental heroine in distress had appeared for Johnson to be able to describe them as exhibitions of life in its true state, "diversified only by accidents...are really to be found in conversing with mankind." He terms this departure the comedy of romance and wishes to apply to it the rules of comic poetry....

...took over from the novel. Dr. Johnson devoted his Rambler no. 4 (March 31, 1750) to this theme: The works of fiction, with which the present generation...are really to be found in conversing with mankind. Johnson shrewdly notes the consequences of this new form of social realism, indicating its basic deviation...