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 Age
It is not impossible, however, that those who candidly admit that they engage in the charitable employment of groping about for flaws and blemishes,( Quart. Review, p.406.) may still discover or make some of their Dulcia Vitia. I certainly do not yet pretend to have visited all the ancient and secluded regions of romance, by which, I suppose, is meant every lumber-house of books in the country, but have myself taken considerable pains, and as some possessors of old romances will probably allow) have given considerable trouble to others on the subject. In professing, however, to exhibit an accurate analysis of the chief prose works of fiction, I certainly would not be understood to mean, that the work is so minutely exact, as to contain a muster-roll of all the knights who fought with Lancelot, or a return of all the giants who were slain by Amadis or Esplandian, on the coast of Ethiopia.
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