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" Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages, that they are both equally conspicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to interest... "
A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century: Part the First in Three ... - Page 394
by Samuel Miller - 1805
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The Rambler. ...

Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonagc?, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to ¡ntcreft ourftlves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufc they do not hinder...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as \ve accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft onrfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder...
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A Full Inquiry Into the Subject of Suicide: To which are Added (as Being ...

Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - Dueling - 1790 - 482 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally conipicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 13, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...mingle good and bad qualiticj in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufc they do not hinder...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 460 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, bccaufe they do not hinder...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 1

1801 - 342 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder...
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder...
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Select British Classics, Volume 5

English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without impairing virtue. Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities...to interest ourselves in their favour, we lose the abhorrence of their faults, because they do not hinder our pleasure, or perhaps regard them with some...
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