 Concerning each of which, many seem to have fallen into very great errors ; for by invention, I believe, is generally understood a creative faculty, which would indeed prove most romance writers to have the highest pretensions to it ; whereas by invention...  Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections - Page 506by Smithsonian Institution - 1881 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Fielding - England - 1749 - 386 pages
...Pretenfions" toil ; whereas by Invention is really meanC . no more, (and fo the Word fignifies) thanDifcovery, or finding out ; or to explain? it at large, a quick and fugacious Penetration into the true Eficnce of all. the Objects of our Contemplation. This, I think,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1749 - 348 pages
...higheftPretenfions to it; whereas by Invention is really meant no more, (and fo'theWord fignifies) than Difcovery, or finding out ; or to explain it at large, a quick and fagacious Penetration into the true Eflence of all the Objects of our Contemplation. This, I think,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1766 - 416 pages
...pretenfions to it ; whereas by invention is really meant no more, (and fo the word fignifies) than difcovery, or finding out ; or to explain it at large, a quick and fagacrous penetration ittto -the true effence of all the objefts of our contemplation. This, I think,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1771 - 424 pages
...it ; whereas by invention is- really meant no more, (and fo the word figni-* fies) than difcovery, or finding out; or to explain it at large, a quick and lagacious penetration into the true effence of all the objects of our contemplation. This, I think,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - English fiction - 1775 - 372 pages
...(mding out ; or, to explain it more at large, a quick and fagacious penetration into the true effence of all the objects of our contemplation. This, I think, can rarely exift, without the concomitancy of judgment : for how we can be faid to have difeovered the true effence... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 664 pages
...prove most ro^ mance writers to have the highest pretensions to it ; whereas by invention is really meant no more (and so the word signifies) than discovery,...and sagacious penetration into the true essence of ail the objects of our contemplation. This, I think, can rarely exist without the concomitancy of judgement;... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1809 - 578 pages
...indeed prove most romance writers to have the highest pretensions to it; whereas hy invention is reallr meant no more (and so the word signifies) than discovery, or finding ont ; or, to explain it at large, a quick and sagacions penetration into the trne essence of all the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...finer growth than our native fleeces, to carry the manufacture to its utmost perfection. Invention is a quick and sagacious penetration into the true essence of all the objects of our contemplation. To extract private libels from public satire, has ever been the office of malevolence and folly. Wit... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...meant no more, (and so the word signifies,) than discovery, or finding out ; or, to explain it more at large, a quick and sagacious penetration into the...contemplation. This, I think, can rarely exist, without tne concomitancy of judgment : for how we can be said to have discovered the true essence of two things,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 850 pages
...indeed prove most romancewriters to have the highest pretensions to it; whereas by invention is really meant no more, (and so the word signifies,) than discovery, or finding out ; or, to explain it more at large, a quick and sagacious penetration into the true essence of all the objects of our contemplation.... | |
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