 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 552 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...justice is a virtue independent on time or place." (Nichol Smith's " Eighteenth Century Essays' on Shakespeare," p. 123.) outward pageant. Cf. i, 2, 86:... | |
 | Puerto Rico. Department of Education - 1916 - 138 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...world better, and justice is a virtue independent of time or place. It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected.... | |
 | 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...better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place." From such representative data it clearly transpires, and is indeed the fact, that throughout... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - 1921 - 464 ページ
...excellencies, has likewise faults, and faults sufficient to obscure and overwhelm any other merit." "The plots are often so loosely formed that a very...seems not always fully to comprehend his own design." "In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 ページ
...endeavor to aid men to live better. This is borne out by another reflection in the same Preface, that it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent of time or place, by which the author seems willing to accept the most insufferable of moral preachments.... | |
 | 1909 - 498 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...may improve them, and so carelessly pursued, that lie seems not always fully to comprehend his own design. He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 ページ
...without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This is a fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's...better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place." Johnson has been widely admired for this type of pronouncement, for his sturdy common sense,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 ページ
...• for it is always a writer's duty_to make the wqrld^ better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or \ . place. The plots are often so loosely...seems not always fully to comprehend his own design. Iie_omits_ppgQrJ:ij.nities, .of instructing_or delighting which the train of his story seems to forcejurjpn... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 ページ
...of good or evil, nor is always careful to shew in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked. . . It is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independam on time or place.*T The pragmatic orientation, ordering the aim of the artist and the character... | |
 | Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - 1987 - 552 ページ
...distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to shew in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ... It is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place.47 The pragmatic orientation, ordering the aim of the artist and the character... | |
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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... 
