Excerpt from The Novels and Novelists: Of the Eighteenth Century, in Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the Age
I Began this work intending to amuse the idleness of a Long Vacation; but a severe and dangerous illness, caused by an accident, entirely baffled my design, and I was obliged to finish the task when I had much less leisure. I do not say this to deprecate criticism - if the work is to be criticised at all - but merely state the fact, which may account for shortcomings that are very likely to be discovered. But I hope that the book will be judged by what it professes to be, and not by what it is not.
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