 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 ページ
...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...and justice is a virtue independent on time or place It will be thought strange that, in enumerating the defects of this writer,26 I have not yet mentioned... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 ページ
...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...to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - 214 ページ
...early eighteenth centuries, that a poet must represent a just universe. Johnson states explicitly that "it is always a writer's duty to make the world better,...justice is a virtue independent on time or place" (p. 71). Although he avoids using the term, in his emphasis on "a just distribution of good and evil,"... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 ページ
...examples to operate by chance'. There is no point appealing to moral relativism, 'this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's...world better, and justice is a virtue independent of time or place' (Yale, v1I, 71). To weigh Shakespeare's merits against 'the state of the age in which... | |
 | Paul Cavill, Heather Ward - 2007 - 515 ページ
...'celestial Wisdom'. Shakespeare, despite his many excellences, is not morally serious enough for Johnson, for 'it is always a writer's duty to make the world better'. 218 Johnson's criticism of Shakespeare is morally perceptive when he sees that the playwright fails... | |
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... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ; 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... 
