 | Tobias Smollett - 1774 - 312 pages
...home to life ; and by reprefenting familiar fcenes-in an uncommon and amufing point of view, invefts them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The Reader gratifies his curiofity, in purluing the adventures of a perfon in whofe favour he is prcpoffeScd... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Adventure stories, English - 1780 - 580 pages
...home to life; and by reprefenting familiar fcenes . in an uncommon and amufing point of view, inverts them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The Reader gratifies his curiofity, in purfuing the adventures of a perfon in whofe favour he is prepoflefTed... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 590 pages
...home to life ; and, by reprefenting familiar fcenes in an uncommon and amufing point of view, invefls them with all the graces of novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiofity in purfuing the adventures of a perfon in whofe favour he is prepoffefled... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...SMOLLETT, MD PREFACE. Or all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and universally improving, ae that which is introduced, as it were, occasionally...novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratiffes his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1870 - 668 pages
...EANDOM. вххиа жт rjBiua, sisi сия дг, га/лв ÂLOA иг.-нов. THE PREFACE OF all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and...novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1870 - 666 pages
...BODEBICK EANDOM. вЖЯС* XT T1RTUS, ftSt CCM ЛГ, TIUOR ¿LOA ЮГ.— HOB. THE PREFACE. Or all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and...novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed... | |
 | David Hannay - Novelists, Scottish - 1887 - 202 pages
...has named it by its name in the preface to '' Roderick Random." "Of all kinds of satire," it begins, "there is none so entertaining and universally improving...novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. . . . The same method (the method of Don Quixote to wit) has been practised by other Spanish and French... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 562 pages
...the rather morbid and effeminate spirituality of some later fiction. GH MAYNADIKK. THE PREFACE OF all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and...novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Impressment - 1925 - 308 pages
...in the same year in which he died. JHI THE ADVENTURES OF RODERICK RANDOM VOL. I THE PREFACE OF all kinds of satire, there is none so entertaining and...novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1925 - 330 pages
...Smollett'* allusions to contemporary persons and events are appended to the second volume . OF all Jdndsjrf satire,. there is none so entertaining, and universally...novelty, while nature is appealed to in every particular. The reader gratifies his curiosity, in pursuing the adventures of a person in whose favour he is prepossessed;... | |
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Of all kinds of Satire, there is none so entertaining, and universally improving, as that which is introduced, as it were, occasionally, in the course of an interesting story, which brings every incident home to life... 
