...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,...to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, god die dispute was protracted through ten years : but at last comedy grew more modest, and Collier...

...drab of the lowest kind ; William Congreve, " the ultimate effect of whose plays," says Dr Johnson, " is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obli-* gations by whkh life ought to be regulated )" Lord Bolingbroke, whom Johnson designated " a...

...man, elated with success, and impatient of censure, assumed an air of confidence and security. . . . The dispute was protracted through ten years ; but at last Comedy grew more modust, and Collier lived to see the reward of his labors in the reformation of the theatre." — Life...

...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.' 1b. viii. 28. He would not quote Dr. Clarke, much as he admired him, because he was not sound upon...

...repentance."—Johnson's Works, vii. 293. " It is acknowledged with universal conviction that the perusal of Congreve's works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate...relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated."—/i.viii. 28. away life under the pressures of poverty, or in the restlessness of suspense,...

...palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned 4. It is acknowledged with universal conviction that...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated 5. 1 In 1698 Congreve published Amendments upon Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations, &c. ;...

...Ausdruck nicht weniger cyniscb als seine früheren Stücke, von denen Johnson durchaus zutreffend sagt: „Their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure...obligations by which life ought to be regulated." 1 ) Genau das Gleiche gilt auch von „The Way of the World", wie gegenüber Steele 2 ) und Genest...

...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...obligations by which life ought to be regulated." Dr. Johnson, in fact, assumes that Congreve and his contemporaries should have accepted the standards...

...he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenor and tendency of his . - . - 1 one who in 1689 refused to swear allegiance to William and Mary as king and queen * Tom D'Urfey,...

...he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenor and tendency of his e busy whisper circling round Conveyed the dismal...to learning was in fault; The village all declared 1 one who in 1689 refused to swear allegiance to William and Mary as king and queen 2 Tom D'Urfey,...