Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious Narratives, with Observations on Some of the Most EminentMundell, 1805 - 174 páginas |
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... give it an useful tendency ; and in the second , to examine , according to those principles , some of the most eminent of these works , which have , at different times , been produced . MORALITY OF FICTION . PART I. THE kinds of ...
... give it an useful tendency ; and in the second , to examine , according to those principles , some of the most eminent of these works , which have , at different times , been produced . MORALITY OF FICTION . PART I. THE kinds of ...
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... give very strong caricatures . With the same view of entertaining their readers , they have filled the story with surprising and impro- bable incidents , such as seldom or never take place in real life . Nor have they scrupled to use ...
... give very strong caricatures . With the same view of entertaining their readers , they have filled the story with surprising and impro- bable incidents , such as seldom or never take place in real life . Nor have they scrupled to use ...
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... give them , on a superficial view , the appear- ance of supporting some favourite tenet . On a closer examination , the leading events will be generally found to have proceeded from foreign and accidental causes , altogether dif- ferent ...
... give them , on a superficial view , the appear- ance of supporting some favourite tenet . On a closer examination , the leading events will be generally found to have proceeded from foreign and accidental causes , altogether dif- ferent ...
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... give a just view of human affairs , it will still possess no superiority over the narrative of real events . Besides the objections to which this species is liable in common with the former , there appear to be others peculiar to itself ...
... give a just view of human affairs , it will still possess no superiority over the narrative of real events . Besides the objections to which this species is liable in common with the former , there appear to be others peculiar to itself ...
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... that no such characters were to be found in real life ; that they were faultless monsters , which the world ne'er saw . ' This argument is evidently founded upon the idea , that the proper office of fiction is to give a faithful re- 21.
... that no such characters were to be found in real life ; that they were faultless monsters , which the world ne'er saw . ' This argument is evidently founded upon the idea , that the proper office of fiction is to give a faithful re- 21.
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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Vista completa - 1805 |
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Vista completa - 1805 |
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Vista completa - 1805 |
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