...printed,3 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 1 Spenceby Singer, p. 159. 1 Notes to D1mciad, book iii. Globe ed. Pope, p. 402. 3 In 8vo. 1728, for...

...most noted author of the day. Swift commended the piece for the excellence of its morality and that it placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ; but others censured it as having a tendency to make heroes out of highwaymen. The author himself satirically says...

...printed3, the reception was different according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece...It has been even said, that after the exhibition of Tfie Beggar's Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied s. 22 Both these decisions are surely...

...much discussion and controversy. Soon after its appearance it was praised by Swift, as a piece which placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light. Others, however, censured it, as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crime, by making a highwayman...

...us the accusation seems as absurd as the commendation of the piece by Swift on the ground that it " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light." After these extremes one welcomes the sound judgment of Johnson that " the play was not likely to do...

...us the accusation seems as absurd as the commendation of the piece by Swift on the ground that it " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light." After these extremes one welcomes the sound judgment of Johnson that "the play was not likely to do...

...that it has taught them to -•' value themselves on their profession, rather than be asham'd of it by making a highwayman the hero and dismissing him at last unpunished. The Stage Medley (1728?) contains the following verses, as well as a picture of the ghost of Collier:...

...Gay' (1779) is more complex, and relevant to the dispute about the 'Newgate Novel': Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece...in the strongest and most odious light; but others . . . censured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the...

...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...has been even said, that, after the exhibition of Tlie Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely...

...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...dismissing him at last unpunished. It has been even said, Ihat after the exhibition of the " Beggar's Opera," the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied....