The History of Fiction, Vol. 1 of 3

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Excerpt from The History of Fiction, Vol. 1 of 3: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, From the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present AgeThe mind with shadows when it cannot enjoy the substance: For, upon a narrow inspec tion, Fiction strongly shows that a greater va riety if things, a more perfect order, a more beautiful variety, than can any where he found in nature, is pleasing to the mind. And as real history gives us not the success of things according to the deserts of vice and virtue, Fiction corrects it, and presents us with the fates and fortunes of persons rewarded or pu nished according to merit. And as real his tory disgusts us with a familiar and constant similitude of things, F ictz'oa relieves us expected turns and changes, and thus not only delights, but inculcates morality and no bleness of soul. It raises the mind by so commodating the images of things to our de sires, and, not like history and reason, subs jecting the mind to things.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.