 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...acknowledged, when speaking of certainly not the worst dramatic writer of his age, "that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...acknowledged, •with universal Conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better j and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure...obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stige found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ' ten years ; but at last Comedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...the side of their brother poets—- The opposition was fierce, and continued for a long time until at last Comedy grew more modest, and Collier lived...reward of his labour in the reformation of the theatre. Congreve's last play was " The Way of the World," which, although written with great labour and much... | |
 | John Styles - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...dramaticpieces of the present day—" It is acknowledged with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better, and that their ultimate...represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax Co 9 those obligations by which life ought to be regulated." I would by no means be thought to institute... | |
 | John Styles - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better, and that their ultimate eil'ect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and...obligations by which life ought to be regulated." I would by no means be thought to institute a comparison between the plays of Congreve and those of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...acknowledged, when speaking of certainly not the worst dramatic writer of his age, ' that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate...to represent pleasure in alliance with vice ; and * Beanie, to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated.'* If it was the purpose of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...play» must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conriction, that the perusal of hie works will make no man better; and that their ultimate...the dispute was protracted through ten years: but at lust Comedy grew more modest; and Collier lived to tee the reward of hie labour in the reformation... | |
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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... 
