 ... 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Page 142by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pages
...of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty 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 may improve them, and fo carelefsly purfued, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...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...seems not always fully to comprehend his own design, tie omits opportunities of instructing or delighting, which the train of his story seems to force upon... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...his age cannot extenuate ; for it is 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 flight confederation may improve them, and fo carelefsly purfued, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty 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 may improve them, and fo carelefsly purfued, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is 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 flight confideration may improve them, and fo carelefsly purfued, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty 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 ffight confideration may improve them, and fo carelefsly purfued, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...examples to operate by chance. This fanlt the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is alwayffa writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place. " The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very Slight consideration may improve them;... | |
 | John Corry - 1804 - 230 pages
...this impression he will consecrate the energies of his mind to Virtue, convinced that " it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place." REVIEWERS. He that refines the public t i.te is a public bonefactoi. JOHNION. OUR literary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...without any moral purpose, even the barbarity o£ his ao;e caunot extenuate; for it is always .1 writer-s duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent cm liuie and place. Ibid. p. 19 and 20. It is seldom that authors rise ranch above the standard of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty 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 (light confederation may improve them, and fo careleftly purfued, that... | |
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