 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...always be c< ndemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his warks will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. *rhcstige found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years ; but at last Comedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviction, that the perufal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to reprefent pleafttre in: alliance with vice, and to relax thofe obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviction, that the perufal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to reprefent pleafure in alliance with vice, and to relax thofe obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...acknowledged, •with universal Conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better j and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stige found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ' ten years ; but at last Comedy... | |
 | John Styles - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...the most popular dramaticpieces of the present day—" It is acknowledged with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better,...represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax Co 9 those obligations by which life ought to be regulated." I would by no means be thought to institute... | |
 | John Styles - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...most popular dramatic pieces of the present day — " It is acknowledged with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better, and that their ultimate eil'ect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...master of common life, or as editing the laws of manners. It has seldom succeeded even in correcting what is amiss, although, by flattering the depraved...to represent pleasure in alliance with vice ; and * Beanie, to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.'* If it was the purpose of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years : but at last Comedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years ; but at last comedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years : but at last Comedy... | |
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Congreve was not tenable : whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works... 
