...third perfon : it was readily acknowledged on all hands, that a narrative in the firft perfon would, by bringing the Adventurer and the Reader nearer together,...confequently afford more entertainment ; but it was obje&ed, that if it was written in the name of the feveral Commanders, I could exhibit only a naked...

...third perfon : it was readily acknowledged on all hands, that a narrative in the firft perfon would, by bringing the Adventurer and the Reader nearer together,...confequently afford more entertainment; but it was objected, • VOL. I. a tha? that if it was written in the name of the feveral Commanders, I could exhibit only...

...third person ; it was readily acknowledged on all hands, that a narrative in the first person would, by bringing the adventurer and the reader nearer together, without the intervention of a stranger, more strongly excite an interest, and consequently afford more entertainment ; but it was...

...the reader's mind as an epistolary fiction (indeed he compares his work to Richardson's novels), "by bringing the Adventurer and the Reader nearer together, without the intervention of a stranger" (Hawkesworth 1773, i:iv). Seemingly, all the bad things that Cook saw, and all the equivocal...

...compilation of South Sea journals. Hawkesworth invents a first-person composite narrator in order to draw "the Adventurer and the Reader nearer together, without the intervention of a stranger." Novelistic technique, Hawkesworth claims, supplements the deficiencies of history. Thus...

...the side of excitement and pleasure, "it was agreed that a narrative in the first person, would, by bringing the Adventurer and the Reader nearer together without the intervention of a stranger, more strongly excite an interest" (Hawkesworth 1773, 1:v, iv). In following the system of...