 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pagina’s
...his 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... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 pagina’s
...his.plays muft always be condemned. It is .acknowledged, with uni. verfal 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... | |
 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pagina’s
...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 ultimate effect is, to reprefent pleafure in alliance with vice, and to relax dit/fe obligations by wLich life ought to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 478 pagina’s
...his 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 278 pagina’s
...his 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pagina’s
...his 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...293. He quotes Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...obligations by which life ought to be regulated.' Ib. viii. 28. He would not quote Dr. Clarke, much as he admired him, because he was not sound upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...293. He quotes Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better;...obligations by which life ought to be regulated.' Ib. viii. 28. He would not quote Dr. Clarke, much as he admired him, because he was not sound upon... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pagina’s
...tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better,...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. " The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years ; but at last comedy... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pagina’s
...tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better,...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. " The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years ; but at last comedy... | |
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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 of his works... 
