 Of this performance, when it was 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 that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious...  The Poetical Works of John Gay - עמוד xviiiמאת John Gay - 1854תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 דפים
...adieus light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the. hero, and difaiiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid that « after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 602 דפים
...odious light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmifling him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that after the exhibition of the Beggar s... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 דפים
...odious light \ but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that after the exhibition of the Beggar 's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 248 דפים
...odisus light ; but others, and among them Dr. Herrfog, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfuredit as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman, the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid that after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 דפים
...odious light ;" but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that, after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 דפים
...odious light ;" but others, and among them J)r. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that, after the exhibition of the ' Beggar's... | |
 | John Gay - 1793 - 356 דפים
...odious light; but others,, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpuniihed. It has been even faid, that after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 דפים
...odious light." [Jntelligaiar, No. III.] Dr. Herring, afterwards Archhifhop of Canterbury, cehfured it as giving encouragement, not only to vice, but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunilhcJ. Both thefe decifions are perhaps exaggerated ; but it mud be confcfled,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 דפים
...the reception was by no means fo great. Dr. Herring, Archbifhop of Canterbury, among others, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and diimiffing him at laft unpunifhed. This objection, or fome other rather political than moral, obtained... | |
 | John Gay - 1799 - 250 דפים
...odious light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards avchbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes , by making a highwayman the hero , and difniifl'ing him at lalt unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
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