 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 ページ
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for k is always a writer's duty to make the world better,...The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very •light consideration may improve them, and so carelessly pursued, that he seems not always fully... | |
 | John Corry - 1809 - 236 ページ
...talents. Under this impression he will consecrate the energies of his mind to Virtue, convinced that " It is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place." REVIEWERS. lie that refines the public taste is a public benefactor Jo ii is SON. Monthly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 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...very slight consideration may improve them, and so carelesly pursued, that he seems not always fully to comprehend his own design. He omits opportunities... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 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...opportunities of instructing or delighting, which the train of bis story seems to force upon him, and apparently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 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...seems not always fully to comprehend his own design. Heomita opportunities of instructing or delighting, which the train of his story seems to force upon... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 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...opportunities of instructing or delighting, which the train of Jiis story seems to force upon him, and apparently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 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...always fully to comprehend his own design. He omits opportuni- ' ties of instructing or delighting, which the train of his story seems to force upon him,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 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...so loosely formed, that a very slight consideration mayimprove them, and so carelessly pursued, that he seems not always fully to comprehend his own design.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 ページ
...them without farther 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 to make the world better ; and justice is a virtueindependent on time, or place. ' The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very slight consideration... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 ページ
...them without farther care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate : for it is, always, a...duty to make the world better ; and justice is a. virtwc independent on time, or place. ' The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very slight consideration... | |
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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... 
