 | Daniel Defoe - 1765 - 372 pagina’s
...thejlory all along recommends to them ; fo it is to be hoped that fuch readers will be much more pleas'd with the moral, .than the fable, with the application,...the end of the -writer, than •with the life of the per fan written of. It is fuggejlcd there cannot be the fame life, the fame b igktricfs and beauty,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, William Hazlitt - 1840 - 784 pagina’s
...in the real worth of the subject, so much as in the gust and palate of the reader. But as this work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to read...application than with the relation, and with the end of the writer.thau with the life of the person written of. There is in this story abundance of delightful... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841 - 406 pagina’s
...necessary to make the best use of a bad story ; and he artfully endeavours, that the reader shall be more pleased with the moral than the fable ; with the application than the relation ; with the end of the writer than the adventures of the person. There was published in... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1870 - 668 pagina’s
...neoessary to make the best use of a bad story ; and he artfully endeavours that the reader shall be more pleased with the moral than the fable ; with the application than the relation ; with the end of the writer 1 Concerning Defoe's knowledge of geography and nautical... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 224 pagina’s
...in the real worth of the Subjecl so much as in the Guff and Palate of the Reader. But as this Work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to read...how to make the good Uses of it, which, the Story allalongrecommends to them; so it is to be hop' d that such Readers will be much more pleas' d with... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 226 pagina’s
...in the real worth of the Subjefl so much as in 'the Gusl and Palate of the Reader. But as this Work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to read...how to make the good Uses of it, which the Story all alongrecommends to them; so it is to be hopedthatsuch •: Readers willbt much more pleas d with the... | |
 | Blake Lee Spahr - 1984 - 464 pagina’s
...way, a point which is also made explicitly by Defoe in the preface to Moll Flanders. But as this work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to read...them, so it is to be hoped that such readers will be more pleased with the moral than the fable, with the application than with the relation, and with the... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1989 - 484 pagina’s
...the moral teaching that he wished to inculcate. In the Preface he makes it very clear that 'this Work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to Read...it, which the Story all along recommends to them'. Knowing how to read the story, as he emphasizes over and over again, is a matter of drawing the 'just... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1998 - 436 pagina’s
...in the real worth of the Subject so much as in the Gust and Palate of the Reader.3 BUT as this Work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to Read...Story all along recommends to them; so it is to be hop'd that such Readers will be much more pleas'd with the Moral, than the Fable; with the Application,4... | |
 | Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio - 2000 - 386 pagina’s
...with its comment that "as this work is chiefly recommended to those who know how to read it... it is hoped that such readers will be much more pleased with the moral, than the fable 31. One exception is Carol H. Flynn; see "Consuming Desires: Defoe's Sexual Systems" in The Body in... | |
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