 | John Styles - 1815 - 254 σελίδες
...is too applicable to the greater part of the most popular dramatic pieces of the present day — " It is acknowledged with universal conviction, that...obligations by which life ought to be regulated." I would by no means be thought to institute a comparison between the plays of Cengreve and those of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 σελίδες
...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,...the dispute was protracted through ten years ; but atlast Comedy grew more modest: and Collier lived to seethe reward of his labour in the reformation... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 σελίδες
...Dr. JOHNSON has acknowledged, when speaking of certainly not the worst dramatic writer of his age, ' that the perusal of his works will make no man better;...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated .'* If it was the purpose of the first ESSAYISTS to detach the public from political controversy, and... | |
 | 1824 - 396 σελίδες
...confine him Co his original stane The Stage. tton. In the language of Dr.' Johnson, the effect of Plays 'is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice; and...obligations by which life ought to be regulated.' Mort. I should hope, Clement, that these effects do not so generally follew an attendance at the Theatre;... | |
 | 1826 - 370 σελίδες
...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...ten years ; but at last comedy grew more modest, and I 2 Collier lived to see the reward of his labours in the reformation of the theatre." "THE REHEARSAL."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 σελίδες
...passages, the general tenor and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acb no wl edged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his...with vice, and to relax those obligations by which lifeought to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through... | |
 | 1834 - 602 σελίδες
...and decency. " It is acknowledged," says Julm-on, " with universal conviction, that the perusal uf his works will make no man better; and that their...ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vire, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated." NICHOLAS ROWE. NICHOLAS... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 σελίδες
...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 PiHIon.] EDMUND CALAMY. 265 works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 σελίδες
...he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenor and tendency of his ibits one of those happy strokes that is seldom attained....Odes to Marlborough there are beautiful lines; but corneay grew more modest, and Collier lived to see the reward of his labour in the re* formation of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 σελίδες
...he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenor and tendency of his plays must .always be condemned. It is acknowledged,...with vice, and to relax those obligations by which Ufa ought to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through... | |
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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... 
