 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 pages
...fpcctator's kindnefs. It was in the power of Richardfon alone to teach us at once efteem and deteftation, to make virtuous refentment overpower all the benevolence...excite; and to lofe at laft the hero in the villain. The fifth ad: is not equal to the former ; the events of the drama arc exhaufted, and little remains... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 476 pages
...fpedator's kindnefs. It was in the power of Richardfon alone to teach us at once efteem and deteftation, to make virtuous refentment overpower all the benevolence...elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lofe at lafl the hero in the villain. The fifth adT: is not equal to the former j the events of the drama are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...much of the fpeclator's kindnefs. It was in the power of Richardfon alone to teach us at once efteem and delegation, to make virtuous refentment overpower...and elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and tolofe at laft the hero in the villain. The fifth act is not equal to the former ; the events of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 278 pages
...kindnefs. It was in the powec power of Richardfon alone to -teach us it once efteerri and deteftation, to make virtuous refentment overpower all the benevolence...which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite i arid tobfe at laft the herb in the villain. 't he fifth acl is not equal to the former ; the events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...at once efteem and deteftation, to make virtuous refentment overpower all the benevolence which wit> elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lofe at laft the hero in the villain. The fifth act is not equal to the former l the events of the drama are exhaufted, and little remains... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
...cfteem and deteftation, to make virtuous refentmeht overpower all the benevolence which wit, elegancej and courage, naturally excite; and to lofe at laft the hero in the villain* V - . The fifth ac t is not equal to the former > the events of the drama are exhaufted, and little... | |
 | 1786 - 800 pages
...trying fcenes, becaufe l his actions are regulated by one fteady teftation ; to make virtuous refentmcnt overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance,...hero in the villain." — Dr. Young very pertinently obfervcd, that Mr. Richardfon, with the mere advantage* principle ; a man of rrligion and virtue ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...once efleem and deteftation, to make virtuous refentment over-power all the benevolence which wit., elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lofe at laft the hero in the villain. Tfae fifth ad is not equal to the former; the events of the drama are exhaufted, and little remains... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...Spectator's kindnefs. It was in the power of Richardfon alone to teach us at once efteem and deteftation, to make virtuous refentment overpower all the benevolence...wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite, and lofe at laft the Hero in the Villain. '" The fifth act is not equal to the former ; the events of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...once efteem and deteftation, to make virtuous refentment over-power all the benevolence which wit, elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lofe at laft the hero in the villain. The \ ".v' 9 ' * •». • . ••'. • ..>-• » V * "' * The fifth act is not equal to the former;... | |
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... excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once... 
