 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 σελίδες
...plays mull always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with uinveri.il conviction, that the peril!:.! of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is, to reprefent pleafure in alliance with vice, and to relax dit/fe obligations by wLich life ought to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 σελίδες
...his.plays muft always be condemned. It is .acknowledged, with uni. verfal 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 278 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 σελίδες
...testify his repentance.' Johnson's Works, vii. 293. He quotes Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that...obligations by which life ought to be regulated.' Ib. viii. 28. He would not quote Dr. Clarke, much as he admired him, because he was not sound upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 σελίδες
...testify his repentance.' Johnson's Works, vii. 293. He quotes Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that...obligations by which life ought to be regulated.' Ib. viii. 28. He would not quote Dr. Clarke, much as he admired him, because he was not sound upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 σελίδες
...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 - 536 σελίδες
...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 - 424 σελίδες
...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... | |
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The cause of 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... 
