 | 1782 - 702 pages
...comprehending the characters of life, difpofed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitude?, for the purpofes of an- uniform plan, and general...cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or iuccefs, without a principal perfonage to attrait the attention, unitefthc incidents, unwind the clue... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1821 - 744 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 738 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groupcs, and exhibited m various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, Or success, without a principal... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 554 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1895 - 290 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 362 pages
...characters of life, disposed tin different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal... | |
 | Selden Lincoln Whitcomb - 1905 - 364 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability, or success, without a principal... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1925 - 264 pages
...characters of life, disposed in different groupes, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient. But this plan cannot be executed with propriety, probability or success, without a principal... | |
 | George Tobias Flom - 1928 - 532 pages
...many of his contemporaries. Smollett's conception of unity as given in the phrase "for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient" admits of more than one interpretation. It might, for example, be construed either as... | |
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A novel is a large diffused picture, comprehending the characters of life, disposed in different groups, and exhibited in various attitudes, for the purposes of an uniform plan, and general occurrence, to which every individual figure is subservient.... 
