...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 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 It will be thought strange that, in enumerating the...

...wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close he dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. 123 Thus, not only conversational thrusts—which must always be regarded as occasional and provisional—but...

...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 independant on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very...

...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" (Johnson on Shakespeare, 71). 21. Elizabeth Griffith, "Preface" to The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama...

...faults is that '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'. There is no point appealing to moral relativism, 'this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate;...