 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 páginas
...printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinions of its readers. Swift commended it for^ the excellence of its morality^ as a piece...been even said, that, after the exhibition of the Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 páginas
...printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece...been even said, that, after the exhibition of " The Beggar's Opera," the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated.... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 496 páginas
...Herring having justly preached against the Beggars' Opera as an immoral piece, which encouraged vice, by making a highway-man the hero, and dismissing him at last unpunished, he was bitterly abused by Swift as a court chaplain, and even as " a stupid, injudicious and prostitute... | |
 | William Coxe - 1820 - 512 páginas
...Herring having justly preached against the Beggars' Opera as an immoral piece, which encouraged vice, by making a highway-man the hero, and dismissing him at last unpunished, he was bitterly abused by Swift as a court chaplain, and even as " a stupid, injudicious and prostitute... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 428 páginas
...printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinions of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece...highwayman the hero, and dismissing him at last unpunished, ft has been even said, that, after the exhibition of the Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 páginas
...printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of ils readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece...been even said, that, after the exhibition of the ' Beggar's Opera,' the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 páginas
...printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece...been even said, that, after the exhibition of The Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 páginas
...printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece...been even said, that, after the exhibition of The Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 páginas
...printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinions of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece...been even said, that, after the exhibition of the Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 394 páginas
...of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years." ed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious...been even said, that, after the exhibition of The Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated.... | |
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Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious... 
