 | Books - 1765 - 600 pages
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault ttv- barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and juftice is a virtue independant orf time or place.' * No queftion, fays our Editor, in another place, can be more innocently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...leaves their examples to operace by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and juftice is a virtue independant on time or place. The plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very flight cdnflderation... | |
 | Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pages
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barba ity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and juftice is a virtue jndependant on time or pb.ce.' 4 No queftion, fays our Editor, in another place, can be more innocently... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's' duty to make the world better, and juftice is a virtue independant on time or place. The plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very flight confideration... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...leaves their Examples to operate by Chance. This Fault the Barbarity of his Age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a Writer's Duty to make the World better; and Juftice is a Virtue independant on Time or Place. The Plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very flight Confederation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...leaves their Examples to operate by Chance. Thi* Fault the Barbarity of his Age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a Writer's Duty to make the World better; and Juftice is a Virtue independant on Time or Place. The Plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very flight Confideration... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is a] ways a writer's duty to make the world better, and juftice is a virtue in* dependent on time or place. The plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very flight confideration... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...convenience, and feems to write without any moral purpofe, even ihe barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and juftice is a virtue independant on time and place. Ditto, p. i9 & 20. It is feldom that authors rife much above the ftandard... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and juftice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very flight confideration may improve them,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and ju (Vice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very... | |
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... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked. He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age... 
