 He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings, indeed, a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Página 141por Samuel Johnson - 1809Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Bascom - 1893 - 458 páginas
...much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. * * His precepts and axioms drop casually from him; he makes no just distribution of good or evil, r-or is always careful to show in the • Reed's British Poets, vol. ii. p. 18. virtuous a disapprobation... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 572 páginas
...is said to be that ' he sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral...but his precepts and axioms drop casually from him . . . His plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration may improve them, and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 páginas
...much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. . . . His precepts and axioms drop casually from him ; he...show in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked.' His mind was analytic^ rather than comprehensive. His thoughts on national manners are the thoughts... | |
 | 1881 - 674 páginas
...in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral...distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to shew in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ; he carries his persons indifferently through... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 páginas
...a system of social duty may be selected, for he Shakspeare found it an incumbrance, and instead of histrionic exertions • Gilbert. » RIID'I Shaliftart, ml. i. 1SS. of Sbakspeare casually of good or evil, nor is always careful to shew in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...seems to write without any moral purpose. . . . His precepts and axioms drop casually from him; ho makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to show iu the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked/ His niirid was analytic rather than comprehensive.... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 páginas
...much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. . . . His precepts and axioms drop casually from him; he...distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to snow in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wickeck' His mind was analytic rather than comprehensive.... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 páginas
...much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to writ* without any moral purpose. . . . description of the post coming in: 'Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge. That with Ha wicked.1 His mind was analytic rather than comprehensive. His thoughts on national manners are the... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 páginas
...Johnson says, " He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is much more careful to please than instruct. From his writings, indeed, a system of social duty...him; he makes no just distribution of good or evil" (p. xxxviii). He writes, in fact, as immoral men generally act, praising virtue with the mouth, but... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1895 - 578 páginas
...is said to be that ' he sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral...but his precepts and axioms drop casually from him . . . His plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration may improve them, and... | |
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