 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 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...better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.1 If the account of Shakespeare's motives given in this volume be correct, it is plain that Johnson's... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 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...justice is a virtue independent on time or place. 3S The plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration may improve them, and so... | |
 | Francis Asbury Smith - 1907 - 142 pagina’s
...careful to please than to instruct that he seems to write without any moral purpose. " . . . " His plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight...seems not always fully to comprehend his own design. " " It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found... | |
 | Francis Asbury Smith - 1907 - 144 pagina’s
...careful to please than to instruct that he seems to write without any moral purpose." . . . "Hisplots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration...seems not always fully to comprehend his own design." " It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1908 - 524 pagina’s
...thinks reasonably must think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop casually from him . . . His plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight...seems not always fully to comprehend his own design . . . It may be observed that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 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...to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very slight consideration... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pagina’s
...always careful to show in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked. . . . this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better. Johnson apparently thought that to every work of imagination a moral ought to be tacked, like 3-1 ,4... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pagina’s
...chance. T.his faultjthfi Jjarbarity .of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a_writer*s.duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue...plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideratlOli may impiuve-them, and so carelessly pursued that he \ seems not always fully to comprehend... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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...world better, and justice is a virtue independent on tune or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration may improve them,... | |
 | Michael A. Quinlan - 1912 - 258 pagina’s
...further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age can not extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make...justice is a virtue independent on time or place."* But Dr. Johnson's opinion underwent a change as regards poetic justice, and on this account it is necessary... | |
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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... 
