 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...the Beggar's Opsra the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 602 pages
...the Beggar s Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 478 pages
...exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...the Beggar 's Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 248 pages
...the Beggar's Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, witho.ut any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, .without more fpeculation... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...the Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1791 - 490 pages
...exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it...admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers feldom frequent the playhoufe, or mingle in any elegant diverfion ; nor is it poflible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...the ' Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeeulation... | |
 | John Gay - Fables - 1793 - 356 pages
...the Beggar's Of era the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1799 - 250 pages
...the Beggar's Opera the gangs of tobbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play , like many others , was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely u do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than... | |
| |
Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived,... 
