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...actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, -Macbeth, Richard, even Iago, - we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences." Such promptings, if Johnson ever came to emphasize them, would render a work merely vicious to his...

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...or curiosity as to their actions that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters ... we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences. . . . [S]o little do the actions [of Shakespeare's criminal characters] . . . affect us, that while...

...when we read the tragedies 'we think not so much of the crimes which [Shakespeare's villainous heroes] commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the...intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences'. He goes on to argue that 'what we see upon a stage is body and bodily action:...

...villains: . . . while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, - Macbeth, Richard, even lago, - we think not so much of the crimes which they commit,...which prompts them to overleap those moral fences . . . not an atom of all which is made perceivable in Mr. Cfibber]'s way of acting [Richard III] ....

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