 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 ページ
...of good or evil, nor is always careful to show in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked. . . . this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate,...is always a writer's duty to make the world better. Johnson apparently thought that to every work of imagination a moral ought to be tacked, like 3-1 ,4... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 ページ
...the wicked. He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 ページ
...the wicked. He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 ページ
...the wicked. He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their 'examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on tune or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very... | |
 | Michael A. Quinlan - 1912 - 262 ページ
...the wicked ; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age can not extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue... | |
 | Michael A. Quinlan - 1912 - 258 ページ
...further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age can not extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place."* But Dr. Johnson's opinion underwent a change as... | |
 | William Hazlitt, Jacob Zeitlin - 1913 - 532 ページ
...justice: "he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place." (Xichol Smith's '' Eighteenth Century Essays on... | |
 | Puerto Rico. Department of Education - 1916 - 148 ページ
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent of time or place. It may be observed that in many of his plays the... | |
 | Wilson Follett - 1918 - 346 ページ
...entirely typical 18th century point of view, the gravest censure of a defect which "the barbarity of the age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place." From such representative data it clearly transpires,... | |
 | 1909 - 498 ページ
...the wicked ; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
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He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty... 
