 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...  Gay's Beggar's Opera: Its Content, History & Influence - Page 251by William Eben Schultz, Oliver Baty Cunningham Memorial Publication Fund, Elizabethan Club (Yale University) - 1923 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 478 pages
...of England (for that feafon) the Italian " Opera, which had carried all before it for " ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception...morality, as a piece that placed all kinds of vice in the Jirongeft and mojt odious light ; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 602 pages
...of England (for that feafon) the Italian " Opera, which had carried all before it for " ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception...morality, as a piece that placed all kinds of 'vice in tie JJrongcft and mvjl odious light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 248 pages
...of England (for that feafon) the " Italian Opera, which had carried all, " before it for ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception...it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece B 2 .' ths-" that; placed all kinds of vice in thejlrongeft and moft odisus light ; but others, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...of England (for that feafon) the Italian " Opera, which had carried all before it for " ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception...commended it for the excellence of its morality, as as a piece that placed all kinds of vice in tie Jlrongeji and mofl odious light \ but others, and among... | |
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...of England (for that feafon) the M Italian Opera, which had carried all " before it for ten years." Of this performance, when it Was printed, the reception...different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for rhe excellence of its morality, as a piece B z that that placed all kinds of vice in thejlrongeft and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 474 pages
...feafon) the Italian " Opera, which had carried all before it for • " ten years." . i ..v... "*.... Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception...according |to the different opinion of its readers. Swift comraended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that placed all kinds of vice in the Jirongeft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 472 pages
...England (for that feafon) the Italian. *' Opera, which had carried all before it fop ** ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception...Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, J as a piece that placed all kinds of vice in the firongejl and mojl odious light ; but others, and... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...England (for that fea" fon) the Italian Opera, which had carried' *' all before it for ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed the reception...as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the " ftrongeft and moft odious light ;" but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...of England (for " that feafon) the Italian Opera, which had carried " all before it for ten years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception...as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the ftrongeft and moft " odious light ;" but others, and among them J)r. Herring, afterwards archbifhop... | |
 | John Gay - Fables - 1793 - 356 pages
...of England (for that feafon) the Italian " Opera, which had Carried all before it for ten « years." Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception...morality, as a piece that placed all kinds of vice in tbeßrongeß and moß odious light; but others,, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop... | |
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