| Several Hands - 1781 - 588 páginas
...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 - 474 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 278 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...testify his repentance.' Johnson's Works, vii. 293. He quotes Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that...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 páginas
...testify his repentance.' Johnson's Works, vii. 293. He quotes Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...always be c< ndemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his warks will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. *rhcstige found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years ; but at last Comedy... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 páginas
...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 pleafttre in: alliance with vice, and to relax thofe obligations by which life ought to be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 páginas
...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... | |
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