...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perlbnages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft onrielrei in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not binder...

...knowledge of the world, will he found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. Many writers so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages,...some kindness for being united with so much merit*." No dexterity of mine is able to reconcile these golden periods with the adulation offered to the inventor...

...knowledge of the world, will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. Many .writers so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages,...delight, and are led by degrees to interest ourselves iu their favour, we lose the abhorrence of their faults, because they do uot hinder our pleasure, or...

...and to increase prudence without impairing virtue. Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages,...some kindness, for being united with so much merit. 3 There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes,...

...to increase prudence without impairing virtue. " Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages,...some kindness, for being united with so much merit." This opinion of novels is not peculiar to Dr. Johnson; the following lines of Cowper shew in what estimation...

...of following nature, so. mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages, that they arc both equally conspicuous; .and as we accompany them...some kindness for being united with so much merit. Some have advanced, without due attention to the consequences of this notion, that certain virtues...

...increase prudence without impairing virtue. Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so • jningle good and bad qualities in their principal personages,...abhorrence of their faults, because they do not hinder our pleasurer, or, perhaps, regard them with some kindness for being united with so much merit. There have...

...and to increase prudence without impairing virtue. Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages, that they are both equally conspicuous ; and suffered to approach their eyes or ears ; are precepts textorted by sense and virtue from an ancient...

...of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages, that they arc both equally conspicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and arc led by degrees to interest ourselves in their favour, we lose the abhorrence of their faults, because...

...and to increase prudence without impairing virtue. Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages,...ourselves in their favour, we lose the abhorrence ¿>f their faults, because they do not hinder our pleasure, or, perhaps, regard them with some kindness,...