 | 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...ngainst himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures. If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." Vol. II. 479. I am happy, however, to have it in my power to observe, that, of late years, a sensible... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." ; » • SECT. IV, The theatre forbidden—because injurious to the happiness of man by disqualifying... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures. If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse, in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue.'* VoL. II. 479. I am happy, however, to have it in my power to observe, that of late years, a sensible... | |
 | John Styles - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...against him, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures! If the Come-' H dies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue! The testimony of Cumberland, a writer of plays, much more moral and decent than most of his contemporaries... | |
 | John Styles - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...traiterously against him, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures! If the Come1dies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue ! The testimony -of Cumberland, a writer of plays, much more moral and decent than most of his contemporaries... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...against Himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures. If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he- must have been lost to all sense of virtue." (quoted also in Blair's Lectures, vol. iii. p. 380. The whole passage in Blair is worth reading.) We... | |
 | John Styles - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...traiterously against him, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures! If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue!" The testimony of Cumberland, a writer of plays, much more moral and decent than most of his contemporaries... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...delicacy. We have, finally, the opinion of Lord Kaimes, who observes, that, if the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. For myself, however, I must confess, that I have Hitherto seen no very bad morals on the stage, —... | |
 | Louis Simond - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...delicacy. We have, finally, the opinion of Lord Kaimes, who observes, that if the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. For myself, however, I must confess, that I have hitherto seen no very bad morals on the stage,—... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments,...better suited to a vicious than a virtuous character. It would grieve me to think so ; and the direct contrary is exemplified in the Merry Wives of Windsor,... | |
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Townly, rather than the cold, the sober, though virtuous Lady Grace ? How odious ought writers to be who thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If... 
