 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pàgines
...and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, re the accent of a human voice. ALMERÍA. It was thy fear, or else some transi ••rli'ct is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which... | |
 | William Cartwright Newsam - 1845 - 264 pàgines
...on the Stage : and we have the testimony of Dr. Johnson to the fact, that the perusal of Congreve's works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated — a sad estimate of the labours of a literary life ! The same high authority, however, says, " if... | |
 | Richard Parry (of Kington.) - 1845 - 328 pàgines
...decline, when Nero himself became a buffoon and a comedian. Dr. Johnson says, "The effect of plays is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice —...obligations by which life ought to be regulated." The great Sir Matthew Hale was an extraordinary proficient at school, and for some time at Oxford ;... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 pàgines
...and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years : but at last comedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 pàgines
...and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years : but at last Comedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pàgines
...and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulatedl The stage found other advocates,. and the dispute was protracted through ten years ; but... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1855 - 442 pàgines
...master of common life, or as editing the laws of manners. It has seldom succeeded even in correcting what is amiss, although by flattering the depraved...Verulam, ' came home to men's business and bosoms,' Johnson's Life of Congreve. a most extensive field lay before them, for the cultivation of which little... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 pàgines
...and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stage found other advocates, god die dispute was protracted through ten years : but at last comedy... | |
 | Luke Tyerman - 1866 - 522 pàgines
...drab of the lowest kind ; William Congreve, " the ultimate effect of whose plays," says Dr Johnson, " is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obli-* gations by whkh life ought to be regulated )" Lord Bolingbroke, whom Johnson designated " a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 576 pàgines
...293. He quotes Congreve, and of Congreve he says : ' It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better...obligations by which life ought to be regulated.' 1b. viii. 28. He would not quote Dr. Clarke, much as he admired him, because he was not sound upon... | |
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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 of his works... 
