The History of Fiction Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Wo
The History of Fiction Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Wo
John Colin Dunlop
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Quand on en a fait uae bonne provision, Ton ferme sa porte et Ton garde ce qu'on a : Cela s' appelle ici, faire Banque- route. '' Those works that have been just mentioned, gave rise to the more modern productions, L'Es- pion Anglois, L'Espion Americain en Europe, and in this country to Goldsmith's Citizen of the the World. In most of these compositions, particularly in the Chinese Spy and Persian Letters, every thing is seen with a disapproving and satirical eye. This, however, may in some deg...ree be considered as characteristic, since all men are in general dispo- sed to prefer the customs and manners in which they have been educated ; and accordingly every variation in the manners of another country, from those which existed in their own, is apt to strike VOL. In. Y 338 FRENCH NOVELS. them as a defect, more especially if the latter have been endeared to them by absence. On the whole, the idea of this species of writing must be consi- dered as happy, since, besides furnishing an op- portunity for naive remark, and affording greater liberty of examining without offence, or even of contradicting generally received opinions, it pre- sents in a new light objects formerly familiar.
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