 | 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... | |
 | 1765 - 600 pages
...the wicked ; he carries his perfons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the clofe 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 a writer's duty to make the world better,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...the wicked; he carries his perfons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the clofe difmifies them without further care, and leaves their examples...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 - 748 pages
...cafually from him ; he makes no juft difjribution of good or evil, nor is al-. ways careful to fliew in the virtuous a difapprobation of the wicked; he...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 - 1782 - 484 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 - 1787 - 504 pages
...precepts and axioms drop cafually from him; he makes no juft diftribution of good or evil, nor is alwavs careful to Ihew in the virtuous a difapprobation of...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
...the wicked ; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...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 - 1790 - 1058 pages
...the wicked ; he carries his perfons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the clofe difmiiTcs them without further care, and leaves their examples...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
...the wicked; he carries his perfons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the clofe difmilTes them without further care, and leaves their examples...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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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 cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty... 
