 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...  profaces, briogrpahical and critical - Σελίδα 16των samuel johnson - 1781Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 278 σελίδες
...general tenour and tendency of his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviction, that the perufal of his works will make...advocates, and the difpute was protracted through ten years ; but at laft Comedy grew more modeft, and Collier lived to fee the reward of his labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 602 σελίδες
...general tenour and tendency of his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviction, that the perufal of his works will make...advocates, and the difpute was protracted through ten years; but at laft Comedy grew more modeft, and Col-? Her lived to fee the reward of his labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 σελίδες
...general tenour and tendency of his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviction, that the perufal of his works will make...advocates, and the difpute was protracted through ten years; but at laft Comedy grew more modeft, and Collier lived to fee the reward of his labour in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 σελίδες
...general tenour and tendency of his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviction, that the perufal of his works will make...alliance with vice, and to relax thofe obligations by whicl* IJfe 0ugh£ tq be regulated. The ftage found other advocates, and the difpute was protracted... | |
 | 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...reprefent pleafure in alliance with vice, and to relax dit/fe obligations by wLich life ought to be regulated. ' The ftage found other advocates, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 472 σελίδες
...and tendency of his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviclion, that the perufal of his works will make no man better...regulated. The ftage found other advocates, and the diipute was protracted through ten years;, but at laft Comedy grew more modeft, .and Collier lived... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 σελίδες
...general tenour and tendency of his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviction, that the perufal of his works will make...advocates, and the difpute was protracted through ten years: but at laft Comedy grew more modeft; and Collier lived to fee the reformation of the theatre.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1794 - 424 σελίδες
...general tenour and tendency of his plays muft always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with univerfal conviction, that the perufal of his works will make...pleafure in alliance with vice, and to relax thofe obligav tions by which life ought to be regulated. The ftage found other advocates, and the difpute... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 σελίδες
...Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 σελίδες
...Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
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