 | 1765 - 600 pagina’s
...them without further care, and 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,... | |
 | Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pagina’s
...them without r'urther ca-e, and 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pagina’s
...them without further care, and 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pagina’s
...them without further care,' and 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pagina’s
...them without further care, and 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, andjufticeis a virtue independent on time or place. • . < The plots are often fo loofely formed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 pagina’s
...them without further Care, and 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pagina’s
...them without further Care, and 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pagina’s
...facrifices virtue to 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pagina’s
...them without further care, and 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pagina’s
...them without further care, and 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 to ir.ake the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often... | |
| |
... 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... 
