 | Books - 1765 - 600 pages
...difmifTes 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...world better, and juftice is a virtue independant orf time or place.' * No queftion, fays our Editor, in another place, can be more innocently difculfed... | |
 | Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pages
...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...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, can be more innocently... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...and wrong, and at the clofe difmifies them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...wrong, and at .the. clofe difmiffes them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is a] ways a writer's duty to make the world better, and juftice is a virtue in* dependent on time or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...author who facrifices virtue to convenience, and feems to write without any moral purpofe, even ihe barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always...better, and juftice is a virtue independant on time and place. Ditto, p. i9 & 20. It is feldom that authors rife much above the ftandard of their own age.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...and wrong, and at the clofe difmiffes them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot...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 flight confideration... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...and wrong, and at the clofe difmiiTcs them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and ju (Vice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...and wrong, and at the clofe difmilTes them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot...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 flight confideration... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...wrong, and at the clofe diftnifies them without further care, and leaves their examples to operdte by chance-. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and jultice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often fo loofely formed, that a very... | |
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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... 
