...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place It will be thought strange that, in enumerating the...

...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very...

...care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance'. There is no point appealing to moral relativism, 'this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate;...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent of time or place' (Yale, v1I, 71). To weigh Shakespeare's merits against...

...[Shakespeare] carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. —Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare" In Conan...

...much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. . . . This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the words better. ... In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction and a wearisome train...

...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very...