Dangerous Connections

What is a novel? A correct picture of morals put in motion.-What should be the aim of a novel? To blend instruction with amusement.-When the morals of the actors are corrupt, is it allowable, with deference to decency, to draw them in their proper shades and colours? Undoubtedly it is; but with the greatest caution, lest by giving vice, whose contagion must be dreaded, its true, though seducing an...