 And as real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished according to merit. And as real history disgusts us with...  Anniversary Oration - Side 24af William Harper - 1836 - 23 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 446 sider
...real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes...with a familiar and constant similitude of things, Fiction relieves us by unexpected turns and changes, and thus not only delights, but inculcates morality... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1814 - 718 sider
...the deserts of vice and virtue, fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and, for tunes of persons, rewarded or punished., according to merit....with a familiar and constant similitude of things, fiction relieves us by unexpected turns and changes ; and, thus, not only delights., but inculcates,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 sider
...corrects it, and displays to us the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished according to their merit; — and, as real history disgusts us with a familiar and constant similitude of things, fiction relieves us by unexpected turns and changes, and thus not only delights but at the same time... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 sider
...corrects it, and displays to us the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or punished according to their merit ; — and, as real history disgusts us with a familiar and constant similitude of things, fiction relieves us by unexpected turns and changes, and thus not only delights but at the same time... | |
 | Charles Frederick Briggs - 1843 - 394 sider
...perfect order, a more beautiful variety, than can anywhere be found in nature is pleasing to the mind. As real history disgusts us with a familiar and constant similitude of things, fiction relieves us by unexampled turns and changes and thus not only delights, but inculcates morality... | |
 | Rowland Smith - 1855 - 552 sider
...Bacon, "gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction connects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of...persons, rewarded or punished according to merit." "It is chiefly in the fictions of an age," sayc Dunlop, "that we can discover the modes of living,... | |
 | 1890 - 984 sider
...real History gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded and punished according to merit." Obviously Bacon, with all his strong common-sense, was not one of... | |
 | 1897 - 552 sider
...us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue," says Lord Bacon, "fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes...persons rewarded or punished according to merit." 1 1 Rohde, E., Der grieehiache Roman und seine Vort&ufer. Leipzig, 1876. Chassang, A., Histoire du... | |
 | Leonard C. Smithers - 1894 - 450 sider
...Cheikh Nefzaoui, of whom more presently. things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction corrects it and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded and punished according to merit." But I would say still more. History paints or attempts to paint life... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1896 - 572 sider
...to thn deserts of vice and virtue. Fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates ancTfortunes of persons rewarded or punished according to merit. And as real history disgusts" us^with a familiar and constant similitude of things, Fiction relieves us by unexpected turns and changes,... | |
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