 The cause of Congreve was not tenable; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal...  profaces, briogrpahical and critical - עמוד 16מאת samuel johnson - 1781תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 דפים
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | John Palmer - 1913 - 354 דפים
...of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged with universal conviction that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 דפים
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal if severe in aught, 205 The love he bore to learning was in fault; The vill represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 דפים
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free — Fishes that tipple represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 דפים
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is, to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 דפים
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal nymphs there are, too conscious of their face,' For life pred elïect is to represent pleasure in allian< г with vice, and to relax those obligations b> which life... | |
 | William Congreve - 1965 - 162 דפים
...of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged with universal conviction that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Randolph Trumbach - 1998 - 536 דפים
...By 1781, Johnson could remark that it was "acknowledged with universal conviction that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Deborah Payne Fisk - 2000 - 326 דפים
...Johnson declares that "it is acknowledged with universal conviction that the perusal of [Congreve's] works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice."8 The difference between "pleas[ing] upon the stage" and... | |
 | Peter Thomson - 2006 - 259 דפים
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
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