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executed was censured by a shoemaker who happened to
stop in his way at the Venus of Apelles.
Johnson continues in this vein, pointing out further
rivalries between the new novel and the older modes of book
learning:
In the romances formerly written, every transaction
and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among
men, that the reader was in very little danger of making
any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were
equally beyond his sphere of activity; and he amused
himself with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and
persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose
actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and
who had neither faults nor excellencies in common with