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" 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 141
por Samuel Johnson - 1809
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Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 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...
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Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 páginas
...books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to j>lease ^thanto instruct, that he seems to write without any moral...system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinksreasonably must think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop casually from Tiim ; he makes...
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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 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...writings, indeed, a system of social duty may be selected, 25 for he that thinks reasonably must think morally: but his precepts and axioms drop casually from...
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Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakspeare's Plays, Volumen2

Hermann Ulrici - 1908 - 524 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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Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 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...writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected, fpr he that thinks reasonably must think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop casually from him...
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions, Notes and ...

1910 - 482 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 right...
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions and Notes

William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 páginas
...convenience, and_is so much more_caref ul to-please than to instruct, that he seems ,tp .write witnout any moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system...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 right...
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Dr. Johnson

John Dennis - 1910 - 126 páginas
...the poet is more anxious to please than to instruct, and appears to write without any moral purpose : He makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor...show in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked. . . . this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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 purpose. From his writings, indeed, ri a system of social duty may be selected, for he that jjiinks rea^-spnably must thinkjmorally; but...
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Poetic Justice in the Drama: The History of an Ethical Principle in Literary ...

Michael A. Quinlan - 1912 - 258 páginas
...in books or in man. He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than instruct, that he seems to write without any moral...makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor is he always careful to show in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ; he carries his persons indifferently...
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