... tricks are nothing more than mere slight of hand, the effect of nimble art and practised adroitness, by which they cheat the sight, but aim not to impose upon the understanding; like them, the novelist professes to deal in ingenious deceptions, but... Henry - الصفحة 215بواسطة Richard Cumberland - 1795عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Richard Cumberland - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 666
...they cheat the fight, but aim 'not to impofe upon the underftanding; like them, the Novelift profefles to deal in ingenious deceptions, but deceptions fo...romance to excite admiration, they have the harmony of a hiflory to engage approbation. Monfters, and prodigies, and every fpccies of unnatural competition... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 978
...novelist professes to deal in ingenious deceptions, but deceptions so like truth and nature, that, whilst his performances have all the vivacity of a romance to excite admiration, they have the harmony of a history to engage approbation' (Henry (1795), VI, i, Williams, p. 415; contrast Fielding's darker comparison... | |
| Michael McKeon - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 972
...novelist ptofesses to deal in ingenious deceptions, but deceptions so like truth and nature, that, whilst his performances have all the vivacity of a romance to excite admiration, they have the harmony of a history to engage approbation" (Henry [i795], VI, i, Williams, p. 425; contrast Fielding's darker comparison... | |
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