 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 792 strani
...EXETBR ORANOB IN TRB 8TRAND. flLONDON: REPRINTED BY CHARLES IIFYNELL, LITTLE rULTENEr STREIT. MDCCCXL. PREFACE. THE world is so taken up of late with novels...person are concealed ; and on this account we must he content to haye the reader to put his own opinion upon the ensuing sheets, and take it just as he... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 strani
...declared the work to be a history and not a story; as in the preface to ' Moll Flanders ' he observes that '-the world is so taken up of late with novels and...genuine where the names and other circumstances of the persons are concealed," — so we believe that in 'Robinson Crusoe' his plan, as a novelist, led him... | |
 | Paul Geissler - 1896 - 44 strani
...declared the work to be a history and not a story; as in the preface to Moll Flanders he observes that "the world is so taken up of late with novels and...genuine where the names and other circumstances of the persons are concealed", — so we believe that in R. Cr. his plan, as a novelist, led him to adopt... | |
 | Wilhelm Dresen - 1896 - 752 strani
...declared the work to be a history anrt not a story; äs in the preface to Moll Flanders he observes that "the world is so taken up of late with novels and...to be taken for genuine where the names and other circnmstances of the persons are concealed", — so we believe that in E. Cr. bis plan, äs a novelist,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier - 1903 - 590 strani
...characters, as I have shown, seldom display their good-will except by smiling. AUTHOR'S PREFACE Y • "^HE world is so taken up of late with • novels and romances,...be hard • for a private history to be taken for _JK- genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed ; and on this account... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1903 - 324 strani
...characters, as I have shown, seldom display their good-will except by smiling. [XV] AUTHOR'S PREFACE Y m ^HE world is so taken up of late with • novels and romances,...be hard • for a private history to be taken for JL. genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed ; and on this account... | |
 | Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 364 strani
...representative testimonies of an earlier period. — Defoe wrote in the preface of Moll Flanders, " The world is so taken up of late with Novels and Romances,...hard for a private history to be taken for genuine." — In 1773, a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine speaks of " this novel-writing age." That magazine... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 320 strani
...their good-will except by smiling. AUTHOR'S PREFACE Y • "^HE world is so taken up of late with I novels and romances, that it will be hard • for a private history to be taken for JL. genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed ; and on this account... | |
 | Herbert Schöffler - 1922 - 266 strani
...kühn, das Werk sei a history und nicht a story ; im Vorwort zu Moll Flanders ist er noch dreister: TJie world is so taken up of late with novels and romances...genuine where the names and other circumstances of the persons are concealed. Im Vorwort zu Duncan Campbell ist ähnlich von writings delivered in a historical... | |
 | Louise Carew - 1926 - 252 strani
...Misfortunea of the Famous Moll Flanders (17££): "The world is ao taken mp of late with Bovele and Aomancea, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, whore tho names ••I other cir CUB stances of the person are concealed; and on this account, we... | |
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THE world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine... 
