...jucunda et idonea dicere vita. HOR. AP 334. And join both profit and delight in one. CREECH. The \vorks of fiction, with which the present generation seems...are really to be found in conversing with mankind. o This kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance, and is to be conducted nearly...

...Johnson had in mind when he wrote an essay for The Rambler on the beguiling effects of fiction. The works of fiction, with which the present generation...the world, and influenced by passions and qualities that are really to be found in conversing with mankind. Accident, as much as passion, was the unfortunate...

...samstags, vom 20. Ma'rz 1750 bis 14. Ma'rz 1752); er verfa(?te die meisten der 208 Nummern selbst. The works of fiction, with which the present generation...are really to be found in conversing with mankind. 5 This kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance, and is to be conducted nearly...

...herself to "a multiplicity of strangers," Susanna Rowson even repeated Samuel Johnson's claim that "the works of fiction with which the present generation...delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state" in order to assert, in contradistinction, that her Trials of the Human Heart (i 795) was meant to "awaken...

...multiplicity of strangers ."Susanna Rowson even repeated Samuel Johnson's claim that "the works of f1ction with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state"in order to assert, in contradistinction, that her Trials of the Human Heart (1795) was meant...

...Johnson had in mind when he wrote an essay for The Ramhler on the heguiling effects of fiction. The works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhihit life in its true state, diversified only hy accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced...

...part of the essay affirms the advantages 174 of the new fiction: unlike heroic romances, these works "exhibit life in its true state, diversified only...are really to be found in conversing with mankind." Here fiction strives to imitate the goings-on that pedestrians stumble across in the street, and writers,...

...and Smollett amply show. Johnson's remarks on these narratives in the Rambler are to the point: The works of fiction, with which the present generation...are really to be found in conversing with mankind. (Yale, 1n, 19; my emphasis) The ordinary would gain political weight, Kinser says, become 'calculable...

...to its peak, a sentiment captured most succinctly in the following statement by Samuel Johnson: The works of fiction, with which the present generation...qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind...Its province is to bring about natural events by easy means, and to keep up curiosity without...

...fiction. What he called 'familiar histories' had become popular. These were stories which represented 'life in its true state, diversified only by accidents...are really to be found in conversing with mankind'. Unlike earlier fictions, which were contrived by invention and imagination and could be written in...